BA 3340 Lecture Notes - Lecture 71: Canlii, Toronto Transit Commission, Distracted Driving
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Product liability, investors and banks, environment, government, employers. Trial courts: judge alone, judge and jury. Appeal courts: review only ques2ons of law, not facts / evidence, panel of judges, decisions: approve, vary or overrule trial court; can order a new trial, civil procedure. : begins the lawsuit based on established legal rules: must begin the lawsuit within. Defendant: defends or answers the plaince"s claims. May also counterclaim; sues the plaince for compensacon based on the same facts: criminal procedure. Crown: begins accon by charges under the criminal code (criminal procedure) or under other legisla2on (quasi-criminal ) examples: environmental, corporate, taxacon. Court determines and either innocent or sentenced and punished by jail or ines or both. Quasi criminal charged by the government but not under the criminal code but under some other legislacon. Consider the dieerence in the standard of proof between civil and criminal accons and resulcng dieerences in results.
