COMMERCE 4SD3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Public Participation, Natural Justice, Precedent
21 Sep 2020
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Law comes from: statutes (federal, provincial, prime minister, precedence), and: regulating of society"s conduct, courts that implement the enforcement mechanisms, through the use of rules, that a court will enforce, basic presumption, everyone assumed to know every law. ***can be in more than one area of law as a result of the same situation*** Terms: common law, a system of precedent as distinct from civil law, law evolved through the queen"s court for the common people as distinct from the. Statutes: need to know the name of all the statutes but not all the section numbers, must be applied by the court as they reflect the will of the people, ambiguous because, poorly drafted, deliberately left open. Includes divisional court, criminal judges court, trial court, unified family court and. Small claims court: criminal and trial court are only courts for which jury is available, ontario court of justice.
