LAWS 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Peremptory Challenge, Authoritarianism, Verdict
22 Mar 2016
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Jury lawleness is the great corrective of law in its actual administration. Wilson j. : by removing the women"s ability to make the decision and giving it to a committee would be a clear violation of their liberty and security of person. Wilson scathingly noted that the state is effectively taking control of a woman"s capacity to reproduce. A dissent was written by mcintyre j. with la forest j. concurring. Mcintyre finds that there is no right to abortions in section 7 nor any other laws. An ancient welch king morgan of glamorgan established trial by jury in ad 725. Was most likely imported to england with the normand conquest, found in the magna. First used as a source of information, under oath, during a trial. Before the 12th century, most trial was by ordeal: water, fire, etc. Made it way in canada in the mid 17th century. Civil: (governed by provincial statutes): malicious arrest, slander, libel, false imprisonment.
