BUS 393 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Parliamentary Sovereignty, Precedent, Provincial Superior

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Business Administration
• Course: BUS 393
• Professor: Shafik Bhalloo

Document Summary

Provide business people with enough informaion to avoid legal problems. Know when involving in a situaion, where legal advice is needed. Be a more informed and efecive client when legal services are required. Equip the students to reduce legal risks of doing business. The body of rules that can be enforced by the courts or by other government agencies. Procedural law how the legal process works law always contains both. Public law regulates our relaionship with government. Private or civil law regulates personal, social, and business relaionships. Enable individual to sue a person who has injured him or her. Originated with the romans and modiied by napoleon (napoleonic code) The judge is not bound by precedent, but must apply the provision of code. Quebec"s legal system is based on the french civil code. Adopted by canada"s english speaking provinces and the territories. Judge-made law (common law and law of equity [courts of chancery])