COMMERCE 2MA3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Occupational Safety And Health, Battered Person Syndrome, Grievous Bodily Harm
14 Nov 2018
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Technological changes: 1867 british north america act (now constitutions act, 1867) framers of. Act could not foresee later technological innovations such as telephone, airplane, radio, television, and the internet: new laws have had to be passed to determine which levels of government (federal/provincial) would have jurisdictions over the new inventions. Changes in values: changes in tolerance for certain forms of behaviour, lobby groups: a number of people trying to influence legislators on behalf of a particular cause or interest. 3 important parts of rule of law: general recognition that law is necessary in a orderly society, law apples equally to everyone, a person"s legal rights will not be take away except in accordance with the law. 115: case law/common law: a type of law developed in england that is based on following previous judicial decisions and is common to all the people of the country, statute law: laws passed by legislatures.
