Management and Organizational Studies 2275A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Precedent, Ultra Vires, Constitution Act, 1982

• School: Western University
• Department: Management and Organizational Studies
• Course: Management and Organizational Studies 2275A/B
• Professor: Cristin Keller

Document Summary

Legislation overrides all other law and must be consistent with the constitution. Definition of law for this course - law is the body of rules that can be enforced by the courts or other government agencies . Substantive law - the rules that govern behaviour and set limits on conduct. Mediators of the law (telling you what to do: procedural law - how rights and obligations are enforced. How do we enforce laws (the process: public law - regulates our relationship with government. Procedural public law = if you think someone is in trouble then they have to go through the seps; file the report, take it to court etc : private law - regulates personal, social and business relationships. Enforced when one person sues another in a private or civil action. Legal issues that do not involve the government. Common law legal system: united kingdom and commonwealth of nations (and the united states)