LAWS 1000 Lecture Notes - Changing Room, Judicial Independence, Parliamentary Sovereignty
7 Jul 2014
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Use slides as basis to structure exam review. Use slides and integrate readings/lecture notes in one set of notes that deals with slides. Idea that we try to combat idea that we don"t know what law is by organizing it to categories that seem to be unchanging and fit laws into those categories. Sources of law, 3 types of legal families in canada, law of aboriginals, civil law, common law. Parliamentary sovereignty, judicial independence, rule of law, federalism from constitution act 1867. Diff types of law making, judicial lawmaking, administrative lawmaking, influences on lawmaking. Parliamentary sovereignty, challenges (federalism, constitution), bases, external challenges. Functions of courts, participants in the courts process (w/ juries), sentencing. Legal profession, access to the legal profession, which is controlled positively and negatively. Judges and judicial independence, meaning of it, bias in adjudication. Slides are a good guide to what is important. Same questions about readings from what is on the slide (what is the thesis, etc)
