LAWS 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Section 33 Of The Canadian Charter Of Rights And Freedoms, Minority Language, Indian Act
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Law, rights and the charter lecture 5. Person"s day based on the person"s case. Not a charter of rights case, occurred before the charter was created. It"s a constitutional case, argued the deinition of the word person to include females under the bna act. British conquest and settlement of canada introduced: A system of courts and legislature modeled on english institutions. Each north american british legislature could pass law on their own jurisdiction, but power was limited: Laws and statutes could be dismissed by the british government. The judicial committee of the privy council had the inal say on. Combination of british and french traditions overlapped with each other as well as aboriginal culture. British law inluenced out law and current british laws are related. Laws and statutes could be opposed, altered and dismissed by the. British government and what ever the british gov. passed, became the law if the land.