LAWS 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Drug Court, Precedent, Summary Offence
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Laws 1000 lecture (7) the organization and structure of canadian law. General & specific customs all of these have, for many years, now incorporated in or superseded by law. Strict view" focuses on facts if the precedent works in your favour, you focus strictly on the facts. British system superimposed onto that federal provincial constitutional system. Provinces have control over inferior courts, federal has control over superior courts & appeal courts. Constitution act, 1867 delineates responsibilities for courts and administration of justice. Courts of appeal and any other courts necessary to improve the administration of. Supreme court of canada provincial governments appoint judges to the inferior courts of the province. What do these constitutional arrangements mean: most matters are dealt with in provincial courts. Judges of provincial courts may be federal or provincial appointments: appeals heard by federally appointed judges.
