POLS 3130 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Parliamentary Sovereignty, 18 Months, Northern Canada
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Pols 3130: law, poliics & the judicial process. Perfect example of what we have been talking about; provide examples of models of courts and legal philosophies and how common law and civil law is used, mootness, standing, ripeness, stare decicis. Will show you a progression of the courts pre-charter and post-charter. Trial is a means to an end the cause does not end when. Mortengaler is found guilty in the irst trial; the path of legalizaion. Governments use these to deter others from acing one is the. Louise riel trial and duplessis government took roncariell"s liquor license because he was a jehovah witness; they wanted to deter other jehovah witnesses of doing the same thing. This was the law in canada, only excepion was if the mother"s life was threatened. Socio-economic and technological change (changing place of women, contracepion etc. ) Briish legal inluence (liberalized law in 1960s) started to change from animaion to quickening (anything ater 20 weeks was illegal)