HUMA 1825 Lecture Notes - Andromache Karakatsanis, Beverley Mclachlin, Michael Moldaver
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See again, minow at p. 253 on battered woman syndrome ( bws ): Bws sought to challenge unstated societal norms that conceived of justifiable self- defense by reference to men"s experiences. Yet by deploying psychological expertise to challenge these norms, the lawyers and their clients confronted another set of societal norms denigrating women with mental instabilities. Women have traditionally been branded with the label of mental instability, and the battered women"s syndrome stimulated this latent image: some preliminary remarks on the supreme court of canada (scc): Place of the scc in the canadian court system (a four-tier pyramidal structure); function, history (supreme court act 1875) Composition of the scc: 9 justices from the geographical regions of canada: 3 must be from quebec: marie deschamps, louis lebel, morris fish, jj. traditionally 3 from ontario: rosalie abella, michael moldaver, andromache. Karakatsanis, jj. (moldaver and karakatsanis jj. appointed in october 2011) 2 from the west: beverley mclachlin, c. j. c. , marshall rothstein, j.
