CRIM 135 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Legislature Parliament Of Nepal, Loaded Language, Legal Realism
25 Sep 2016
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Make up and administrative of the legal profession. The study of law is largely the study of history. How we got here: magna carta to plains of abraham to quebec act to uc/lc to act of union to bna at to. Law is practical history see where we"re going but need to see where we"ve been. Just because your party is in power in 4 years doesn"t mean it can do everything it wants. Chief goal of political parties is to stay in power. Where you stand on any issue depends on where you sit. Who makes what: statutes legislative , civil gov"t, federal, common law judges, administrative tribunals. Scc / ca / scbc vs prov court / traffic court / lrb. Correction * 5 kinds of law, not 3 : case law based up common law of land a. i. e. misrepresentation in a contractual dispute. One cannot ignore the importance of bureaucrats drafting and policy manuals and exercising discretion.
