LAWS 2301 Lecture Notes - Law Commission, Faith Healing, Sensationalism
9 Feb 2013
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Llcr proposed goals and principles (law reform commission of canada) Smith principles (put together to deal with sexual offenses) *purposes and principles are meant to address the problems we have in the cjs. * law reform commission"s job was to restrain the cjs: did come up with 4 main principles until they were replaced during the mulroney era with the law commission of canada:(also underfunded) Note: section 2. 5 on historical perspectives in text: skipped. What are some purposes and goals of criminal law? (class examples) What do other people think should be the goal(s)?- purposes of law according to lrc. Retribution: argument- there are people who commit public wrongs out there and they should be punished for it- lrc rejects this idea of retribution as a principle of law. Enforcing morality- should criminal law be used to enforce morality?- lrc rejects this idea on the basis that it"s too individual: different people have different morals.
