MCS 3040 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Beverley Mclachlin

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Marketing and Consumer Studies
• Course: MCS 3040
• Professor: Joseph Radocchia

Document Summary

Federal court system: deals with matters to come within the federal systems jurisdiction, federal court of appeal (highest court, federal court trial division, tax court, deals with federal income tax issues. Overtime a court renders a judgement (order, decision, reason) how does that impact the law: it gives a reference point for future cases to be referenced to, may set precedent. Phases: pleading phase, discovery, pre-trial, trial phase, appeal phase. Phase one: pleadings phase: separated into stages/phases, the plaintiff is responsible for bringing the course to court, need to hire lawyer. Pleadings phase: the legal documents that need to be led. Scenario 4: student slips on ice that was covered in snow, broke leg. Class action: one representative plaintiff representing multiple plaintiffs (class of people: so we only have one lawsuit not multiple, ex. Volkswagen: must be certi ed to be part of the class action. Intervenor: want to be part of the class action.