JOUR 2501 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: 18 Months, Reference Re Alberta Statutes, Toronto Star
8 Feb 2019
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3 main bodies of law: civil, how private individuals interact with each other the state is not involved, 2 separate sections: contracts and torts. Rule of law: incorporates all three bodies, overarching principle. Three sources of law: the constitution, statutes, and case/common law. Statutes: piece of legislation, law enacted by the government criminal code is a federal act starts as a bill, then act once it is passed by majority government changes become law once changed in parliament and announced. Regulations: tells you fines, attached to the acts. Common law/case law/judge-made law some become precedents, not all: decisions of judges, precedents, every decision made by the supreme court is automatically precedent lower courts must follow the proceedings of higher courts, quebec civil law is different. Judges are supposed to made decisions more based on civil law, not previous decisions precedent: binding authority, precedent is only bound by provincial borders and supreme court (i. e. , manitoba precedents don"t apply in ontario)
