CRIM 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: English Criminal Law, Provincial Superior, Provincial And Territorial Courts In Canada
8 Jan 2018
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The entire set of principles, procedures and rules established by governments through the courts and criminal code in order to ensure public safety (jones, 2015) The entire set of principles, procedures and rules includes definitions of crimes, criminal responsibility, punishments, and defenses to criminal charges: criminal laws include both a prohibition, and a prescribed punishment. Violation of public order prosecuted by the state . Results in criminal penalties (e. g. , imprisonment) (jones, 2015) Infringement of contract, or rights of another citizen. Results in an award of damages (e. g. , monetary compensation) (griffiths, 2011: most of the criminal laws in canada - murder, robbery, assault - were inherited from english common law. Common law : england does not have a criminal code; rather, english criminal law operates on the principle of, canada adopted its own criminal code in 1892, although it retained to power to create common law until the 1950s.
