LAWS 3307 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Parliamentary Sovereignty, Summary Offence, 18 Months

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10 Apr 2018
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Laws youth and criminal law week two. Laws need to be interpreted and applied in order to have any affect. Amendments are changes to the law in any way once it has been passed. Defined public law sets rules between the person and the state. If someone breaks a law it is seen as a wrong against society. Criminal law, constitutional law (relation between governments and limits governmental powers over others through fundamental freedoms) and administrative law (actions of the government) are all public law. Prior 1982 canada legally had a system of parliamentary supremacy (any bill and law could be passed essentially there was nothing higher than the parliament) After, parliament could not violate laws that violated the fundamental rights and freedoms of. The roles of the courts was also elevated in 1982. The role of the courts were given the role of interpreting the constitutional laws and the laws the constitution passed were constitutional.

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