Year 11 Legal Studies – Unit 3: Changing the Law (NSW 2025 Syllabus) | Complete Unit
$61 · Single-teacher licence
Two powerful case studies. Done for you.
I’m a Legal Studies teacher in NSW, and I wrote this unit for my own Year 11 class in 2027. Law reform can be tricky to teach well. This unit gives you a clear framework and two case studies that students really care about. You save the planning time and get your weekends back.
Changing the Law runs for about 25 indicative hours. Students learn the reasons, drivers, processes and outcomes of law reform, then apply them to two case studies:
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Land rights in NSW and native title: Mabo, Wik, Yorta Yorta and Timber Creek.
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The criminalisation of coercive control in NSW, using BOCSAR data on the new offence.
What’s inside
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Notes decks (50+ slides): three topic decks plus a combined unit deck. Student copies have gaps to fill in and are safe to post on your class site. Completed copies include every answer and teaching notes.
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Worksheets with answer keys: three of them, building to extended responses.
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Handouts students keep all year:
- a key-terms glossary
- the 11-criteria evaluation card
- a plain-English command-terms sheet
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Quick checks: a summary test with key, and a 30-question Kahoot and Blooket quiz bank.
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Task 3 research-based extended response, ready to go:
- notification
- research log
- marking guidelines
- sample responses
- a referencing guide for legal sources
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Case bank: cases, legislation, reports and statistics with links to official sources.
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Wellbeing notes and support contacts, for teaching sensitive content with care.
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Planning done: unit program, scope and sequence and assessment schedule.
Why you’ll like it
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Hours saved every week: open the deck, print the worksheet and teach.
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Current data: coercive control statistics run to December 2025.
- Checked facts and fully editable files.
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