POLI 343 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Supreme Court Act, Royal Assent, Lower Canada
14 Jan 2017
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Lecture iii: history of the co(cid:373)(cid:373)o(cid:374) la(cid:449) legal syste(cid:373) i(cid:374) ca(cid:374)ada (cid:894)co(cid:374)t"d(cid:895) Any changes in british laws automatically apply to the colony, including both legislative and judicial decisions. The date of reception: this is the date on which a global colony becomes self- governing. This does not mean that the colony has become independent, it means that it has a robust enough local government that local law making and governance is transferred over to the colony. All transferred british law in the colony is fixed from this date onwards. This means that legal changes in britain do not affect law in the colony after this date, instead legal changes in the colony come from the local governing body. Interestingly, legal changes in britain continued to affect canada until the. Constitution act of 1982, to a certain extent. No repugnant laws (laws that undermined british common law) could be passed in a self-governing colony.
