POLS 2140 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Critical Legal Studies, Legal Realism, Sex Education
19 Jan 2016
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Law is defined as the system of rules which a country or community use to regulate the actions of its members and enforcing it with penalties. Rulers must obey the law, laws are known ahead of time, law is equally applied to everyone and dispute decisions are decided by an impartial arbiter. There are many theories of the law including. Natural law theory, legal positivism, legal realism and. The law has different systems, such as common law or civil law, as well as categories of law such as private (civil) or public. The judicial process involves resolving disputes particularly in court. S. 96 provincial superior courts existed before confederation and deal with both provincial and federal government. They are administered by provincial and appointed by federal. S. 92 provincial courts only hear cases arising from their own province, only have original jurisdiction and have no appeal courts.
