LAWS 2502 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Mootness, Judicial Activism, Statelessness
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Week 6: quiz 3 kafka, bedford, criticial indigenous colonialism (for weeks 7-9, quiz 2 weeks 3-6. Since 1981, concept has been expanded even further. What is the public standing trilogy: borowski v. canada (1981, nova scotia board of sensors v. mcneil (1976, thorson v. canada (1975) Swuav v. canada (2012) argued this organization should have standing. Pi standing principles to be read with purpose, What are the public interest standing principles as of today: third principle expanded: not mechanical; access to justice . What is one of the judges" main concerns when deliberating on mootness: don"t want to turn appeal into a reference. If they proceed to hear a moot case, they turn what should be an appeal into a reference. Leading supreme court case on mootness: borowski v. canada (1989) // not same at 1981 case. Law and politics: not the same thing, but also not entirely different, law is political but not holy reducable to politics.
