CRIM 332 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Great Power, Equal Protection Clause, Police Misconduct
5 Feb 2020
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Crim 332 - lecture 4 - canadian charter of rights and freedoms. Great power shifting away from parliament courts. All federal & provincial legislation subject to charter. All constitutional documents have to be consistent w/ charter. Charter guarantees certain level of basic rights & freedoms applying to all people in. Charter guarantees rights & freedoms set out in it subject only to such reasonable limits prescribed by law as can be demonstrably justified in a free & democratic society. An objective related to concerns which are pressing and substantial in a free and democratic society . Measures must be carefully designed to achieve objective in question. Impair as little as possible right/freedom in question. Proportionality b/w effects of measures & objective which has been identified as of sufficient importance . S. 2 everyone has the following fundamental freedoms. Freedom of thought, belief, opinion, expression, including freedom of press & other media of communication.
