LAW 201 Lecture 2: LAW201 Lecture 2- January 10th, 2017
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Sources of law - in a common law jurisdiction like ontario. Constitution: the canadian constitution is the supreme law of the land, it trumps everything - the constitution governs. Statues: includes regulations, statutory law, regulations, legislation, comes right behind constitution in terms of regulation. Case law: made by previous decisions, it becomes a source for us to use in cases. The order of priority of the sources of law in canada is : the constitution, decisions from the supreme court of canada, valid legislation, decisions from other courts. Legal reasoning - fairly structured way to solve legal puzzles legal reasoning is a fairly structured way to solve legal puzzles: all cases and decisions contain one of these rules. *a judicial decision may express more than one rule. What do lawyers do? we apply legal reasoning legal reasoning, to do it well, is a hard skill - that"s why we go to law school.
