Practice question · Sort into groups
Sort each provision by the function of law it most directly performs.
Groups: Organisation · Social control · Conflict resolution
- Regulator's powers
- Species sale ban
- Boundary proof rule
- Consumer claim venue
- Emissions fine
- Dissolving parliament
Hints
- One column contains rules that create the bodies the other rules presuppose.
- A rule about who decides, or on what criterion, belongs to the third column.
Show the answer
Organisation: Regulator's powers, Dissolving parliament
Social control: Species sale ban, Emissions fine
Conflict resolution: Consumer claim venue, Boundary proof rule
Why
The third column is easy to under-populate, because rules about burden of proof and jurisdiction feel procedural rather than substantive. They are the conflict-resolution function in its purest form: without them the disagreement about the rule becomes a second dispute stacked on the first.
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