SOSC 2350 Lecture 4: How to Read a Legal Case Part 2
27 Jan 2016
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Carter v. canada (attorney general), 2015 scc 5, [2015] 1 s. c. r. 331: the title of each case tells us who the two parties are in a case. The first name is the one who brought the appeal to the supreme court. Carter v canada (attorney general), carter appealed to the supreme. Court to remedy her problem: the citation of a case provides you with imp info about a case, including what court wrote the opinion, the year, volume and page number of the decision. Campbell v. quebec (attorney general), 2005 scc 35 [2005] 1 s. c. r. Summary of events that occurred before the case was filed in court. Procedural history of the case (i. e. various motions, hearings, trials, and proceedings that went on in the case before the court that is writing the opinion was asked to resolve the dispute at issue).
