LAWS 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Openaccess, Trutv, Supreme Court Of Canada
17 Apr 2017
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The courts and other forms of dispute resolution, in patrick fitzgerald, barry wright & vincent. Review: making the law: influences: civil and common law, sources of law, subsidiary & general, subsidiary sources include, general & specific customs, books of authority, principal sources include: Today: organization & structure of canadian law: british system within federal state structure, constitution act, 1867 delineates responsibilities for courts and administration of justice, s. 92(14) provincial responsibilities, s. 101 federal responsibility, s. 96,99,100 federal authority to appoint judges. What do these constitutional arrangements mean: most matters dealt with in provincial courts, judges of provincial courts may be federal or provincial appointments, appeals heard by federally-app"d judges, feds and provinces have established specialized courts. Jurisdiction: authority of a court to hear, adjudicate and give decisions, authority derived from statutes which may define jurisdiction in different ways, ie. , geographic, lower level/inferior courts limited jurisdiction, superior courts largely unlimited jurisdiction!
