POLI 324 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Parliamentary Sovereignty, Veto, Fundamental Justice
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Unit 6: legal rights: sexual assault and the criminal code. Key terms: principles of fundamental justice; legislative responses to judicial invalidation; invalidation of common-law principles; weak-form versus strong- form judicial review; section 7 and security of the person"; judicial compliance versus legislative defiance. S33 makes the charter weak: they (weak form) may theoretically different: at the end of the day these mechanisms are never used they bring the weak form to the strong form. Parliamentary model statutory and entrenched with judicial review. constitutions. Judicial review, barring constitutional amendment, remains the final word on rights and. Judicial review not necessarily the final word legislative overrides and limited judicial review freedoms: weak form: it is easier to change the judicial decision whereas in a strong form system they are more difficult to change. The appointment of the us sc the continuity. In canada because of the mandatory retirement age, it is more malleable.