CRI345 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Royal Assent, Intersectionality, Class Conflict
10 Aug 2022
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Statutes legislation, acts collections of statutes. Laws that are passed by parliament & given royal assent, found in. Cases tried in court, most have been appealed. Landmark decisions, individual cases that make up body of law called. Give judges & policy makers some appreciation how laws passed as statutes have been interpreted/applied to specific cases. Rules of interpretation that allow judges to make decisions in cases. All interact in complex/messy ways in common law system. Very diff from civil law jurisdictions ex. Precedent & principles less important than statutes/codes of law. Strict hierarchy of which kinds of law are the winners. Supporters more responsive to historical & cultural change. India, australia, northern north america (not the usa anymore since 1776), some parts of southern/eastern/western africa, etc. At one point under jurisdiction of british crown modern legal tradition of common law. Similar history of legal development & big institutional changes.
