LAWS 1000 Lecture Notes - Psy, Liberal Democracy, Monism
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3 types of lawmaking legislative, judicial, and administrative. Positivism, in theory, judges shouldn"t be making law, just identifying it. Administrative lawmaking is an area of lawmaking that comes from the delegated power of. Parliament has powers to regulate in any area of life. Since wwii, parliament has expanded into many areas of life where they don"t have time to regulate and know about. Agencies/bodies of govt (like canadian food inspection agency), delegate them powers that they would have, and let the administrative bodies deal with it. They are given the power to administer in those areas, as well as create rules and details that govern their area of law. They will tell you informally what it means if the inspection agency has the right to inspect a food plant. Most of these bodies create conflict because they have the power to administrate this area. Might be unhappy if you"re a food plant and an inspector shuts you down.