Basic legal notions are concepts that a society needs to run efficiently, and have been developed into laws so that communities and individuals will follow and allow for smooth running of a society. The legal notions include anarchy, customs, rules, law, fairness, equality and justice. These notions have helped establish common and statute law in the Australian legal system. The basic legal notions include Anarchy; the state of a society that does not have laws …showed first 75 words of 818 total…

…showed last 75 words of 818 total…there is no rule. Anarchy may only occur in extreme cases, such as in 1992 in the Los Angeles riots, which was a reaction by black Americans to the police bashing of Rodney King. During these riots law enforcement was ineffective. Anarchy, customs, rules, fairness and justice are the basic legal notions that have helped establish the Common and Statute laws that are in use in Australia today. Without these notions our laws would not exist.