MCS 3040 Chapter Notes -Ultra Vires, Precedent, English Law

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Marketing and Consumer Studies
• Course: MCS 3040
• Professor: Joseph Radocchia

Document Summary

Rule of law = everyone is subject to the law; nobody is above the law (however, diplomats have diplomatic immunity they will be tried by their own country) How to deal with the violation ( rules of civil procedure ) Public law: our relationship with the government (ex. highway traffic, immigration, criminal) Private law: our relationships with each other (contract law, family law, business law) *ex: assault (public: crime of assault) (private: law of torts; can sue for pain _ suffering) English common law, french civil law (quebec civil code), and aboriginal. Law all of these influenced canadian law historically. Civil law doesn"t deal with crime in every province except quebec (criminal law is applied the same across the nation) Quebec civil code: don"t need prior court decisions, master law (roman tradition) Sources of law: government: federal has power to create territorial law; provincial has power to create municipal law (ex. workplace injury; administrative board,