CRM 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Canadian Security Intelligence Service, Ontario Provincial Police, Canada Border Services Agency
26 Sep 2016
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The requirement that governments, as well as individuals, be subjected to and abide by the law. Charter of rights and freedoms: provide people with fundamental freedoms, legal and quality rights provides protection for individual and ensures fairness during legal proceedings. Principles of canadian law actus non facit reum nisi mens sit rea: an act does not make a person guilty unless he or she has a guilty mind disabled and children usually doesn"t apply to this. Nullum crimen sine lege, nulla peona sine lege: no crime without a law, no punishment without a law cannot be changed in the middle of the game and cannot be applied retroactively. Ignoritia juris non exusant: ignorance of the law is no excuse however, law is ever changing and always under discussion. Nemo tenetur seipsu accusare: no one is compelled to incriminate him or herself.
