CRM 400 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Obiter Dictum, Allodial Title, Ratio Decidendi

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Criminology
• Course: CRM 400
• Professor: Kelly De Luca

Document Summary

Course requirements course materials overview of the course competing views of aboriginal rights, sovereignty key constitutional and legislative texts. Tsilhqot in nation v. british columbia, 2014 scc 44, [2014] Buffalo river dene nation v. saskatchewan (minister of. Energy and resources), 2015 skca 31, [2015] 2 cnlr 81. R. v. sioui, [1990] 1 scr 1025. R. v. p. m. , 1992 canlii 2814, 71 ccc (3d) 347 (yk tc). Ratio decidendi (the holding ) vs. obiter dicta. Example: r. v. kokopenace, 2015 scc 28 https://www. canlii. org/en/ca/scc/doc/2015/2015scc28/2. Example: the queen v. drybones, [1970] scr 282. Identity treaties aboriginal title aboriginal rights relationship with the. Crown/federalism aboriginal people and the criminal justice system the role of the criminal law in defining aboriginal rights self-governance as a goal. Theory 1: rights are based on aboriginal legal systems. Theory 2: aboriginal rights are equivalents of non- aboriginal elements of english law.