(a) That's wrong. 

You were asked to select the incorrect statement.

It is correct to say that Australian law is typically divided into “areas” or “categories” of law, such as contract law, tort law and property law. 

It is true to say that legal concepts are the broad ideas that determine the nature and scope of a category of law. 

It is generally correct to say that legal rules specify the particular requirements that apply in given situations, or lay down what should happen in given circumstances.

It is not true to say that legal principles are the ethical considerations that determine whether legal rules are morally justified.  The phrase ‘legal principle’ means the fundamental ideas that give effect to a particular point of view, policy or value, for example, the principle that questions of intention are to be determined objectively by drawing reasonable conclusions from proved facts; or that consent to a transaction should be freely given.

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