GEOG 1120 Lecture : Impartiality.docx
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Impartialitythey cant go out in the media and offer advice and stuffthats one of 3 things that limits judges. Judicial independenceprime minister cant tell judges to go arrest this person whatsoever or anything similar to thatthey"re independent. Equality before the lawlawyers are expensive so like some people cant affordso to solve this problem there is equality before the law so there are legal programs that help people find support to fight a lawsuit etc Canadian court system: there is a hierarchysee figure 8. 1just keep this in mindnot too important but do keep it in mind There is a federal dimension in our court system. Common law vs. civil lawall of canada except for quebec follows tradition of the common lawwhereas quebec follows civil law system. Basically the difference is common law is a collection of precedents from previous cases It has the power to basically choose what cases they want to hearusually they hear about 100 a year.
