Lesson Plans - Law
"Loud Music"   A Simplified Mock Trail Case

Fact Sheet:

Tip was 160 centimetres tall but had speakers that reached from the floor to the ceiling of his room.

loud music(image credit: www.candumusic.ca)

He said turning the volume on his speakers to the highest made him feel powerful.

Every day around 7 pm he started playing his favourite rock music and continued until 4 am when he went to sleep.

The volume was so loud it vibrated the wooden walls of the house and shook the ceiling lights.
When the neighbours complained to his mother, she shouted at Tip and he turned the volume down a little, only to turn it even higher a few minutes later.

Finally, the neighbours asked the court to order Tip to stop playing loud music every night.
Tip answered that he wasn't playing music any louder than the Temples during their regular fairs to raise money.

The neighbours said even though the music at Temple Fairs was even louder than his, they only had Temple Fairs sometimes, whereas he played his music every night.

Tip said the village uses loud speakers every day in the early morning which are even louder than my music.

The neighbours said, even though the village music and announcements are loud, the messages and information are supposed to help everyone.

You play your music many hours during the night for your own pleasure, but it keeps us awake, and that is unfair.

Tip said: "My music is very nice and people like it!"

Lesson Plan: "Loud Music" - A Simplified Mock Trial based on the Canada School Net Simplified Mock Trial Design.


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