PSYC39H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Superior Court, Pass Laws, Epigenetics
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Canadian legal system: legislators: make the laws. Members of parliament: police: enforce the law, three functional levels of the judiciary: Lower courts: adjudicate/try individual cases to see whether (cid:498)citizen. Blogs(cid:499) actually broke law/who owes who under signed contract/if there is. If someone is charged with crime/ if there is a dispute between 2 people over a monitory matter/damages like insurance claims. Appellate (appeal) courts: decide whether lower court judge erred in no contract is there quasar contract applying law majority: composed of 3 senior judges who write opinion and it goes with, they are obligated to consider appeals. If they disagree with lower court they can send it back or reverse decision/they can say that go figure it out you have things to discuss. If there is possible error in law that occurs in trial at lower court, lawyer for party that believes that judge at lower court erred in law.