SOSC 2350 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Context Awareness, Legal Realism, Perspectivism
8 Feb 2018
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Theories of law and society october 25, 2017. An employment rule, neutral on its face can have discriminatory effect. R. v. big m drug mart ltd (1985) Law informs theory, theory informs law: v. big m drug mart ltd. To the extent that it binds all to a sectarian christian ideal, the. Lord"s day act works a form of coercion inimical to the spirit of the. In proclaiming the standards of the christian faith, the act creates a climate hostile to, and gives the appearance of discrimination against, non-christian. It takes religious values rooted in christian morality and, using the force of the state, translates them into a positive law binding on believers and non-believers alike. Task of judging very complex today- judging is like grieving . Canadian society is becoming increasingly diverse- this is when we need to look at theory.
