POLS 1400 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Saskatchewan Act, Patronage, Manitoba Act
23 Jan 2017
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The judicial branch: the court system in canada is hierarchical as outlined in the diagram above. We begin with the supreme court of canada, which was established in 1875 as a general court of appeal of canada. Today 9 judges serve on the supreme court, three of whom must come from the civil law tradition, aka quebec. The supreme court judges do not have to (cid:396)eti(cid:396)e u(cid:374)til age (cid:1011)(cid:1009). As the highest (cid:272)ou(cid:396)t i(cid:374) the la(cid:374)d, the up(cid:396)e(cid:373)e cou(cid:396)t"s de(cid:272)isio(cid:374)s a(cid:396)e binding, and they deal with cases that have been appealed at least once in one of the lower courts. In certain circumstances, the supreme court also deals with the questions directly referred by the federal government such as the issue of same sex marriage. Canada has both common law and civil law. Common law is english law which has rulings dating back to the 13th century.
