POL 221 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Judicial Discretion, Summary Offence, Judicial Restraint
21 Apr 2016
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The duty of the court is not to remedy a particular grievance but to determine whether an alleged grievance is one for which the law supplies a remedy. a. v. Relation between law & public opinion in england during the nineteenth century. Common law the basis of canadian legal system whereby legal rulings are informed/premised upon previous applicable judicial precedents (inherited from the british legal tradition) Private law (civil law: public law refers to all matters that the state has declared to be within the purview of the public interest such a constitutional law (i. e. disputes over division of powers; ), taxation law, criminal law and administrative law: private (civil) law regulates relationships between two private parties be they individuals or corporations as they pertain to contracts, property, family law, torts and private wills. Code civil du quebec system of civil law retained by quebec as per the bna act 1867; inspired by napoleonic tradition of codified law.
