POL 151 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Hybrid Offence, Indictable Offence, Assisted Suicide
27 Feb 2018
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Federal government - pays and appoints judges in s. 101 courts the purely federal courts. Provincial government - creates courts, pays, and appoints judges in the s. 92 courts. Purely provincial : 96 courts - the courts are created by the provinces but the judges are appointed by the federal government. John a macdonald wanted a centralized federation (power to be split between the provinces and the federal system; since quebec would not consent to being governed by. Anglophones - it gave quebec a sense of autonomy) Federal government: criminal law, taxes, residual power, power to disallow provincial laws. Provincial government: all matters of a merely local or private nature . S. 96 courts are way for the federal government to monitor what the provinces are doing. Common law - based on precedent; very general. Civil law - based on civil codes, very specific, detailed rules about each situation. Hybrid offence - can be tried as summary or indictable depending at context.
