LAWG 101D1- Midterm Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 69 pages long!)

• School: McGill University
• Department: Law General
• Course: LAWG 101D1
• Professor: Stephen Smith

Document Summary

September 13th: private law of civil wrongs (as oppose to the public law of criminal wrongs for criminal justice course, bad things happen, people get hurt, products recalled in fear of something bad happening. -> always a complicated mixtures of individual choices and collective sense of harm, tension , fear: often search for the causers of the harm. Identify wrong, connection between wrong doer and sufferer, and how to repair wrongs. Needs: record/remembrance, acknowledgement, apology, accountability, access to therapy/healing, access to education or training, prevention and public awareness. Compensation: collective experience compensation - ,000 + ,000 for each year. Independent assessment process: certain dollar values were attach to certain kinds of harms. Regimes/responses: community initiatives, truth and reconciliation commission, criminal justice process, civil action (private law of civil wrongs) Assessment of responses (community initiatives, truth and reconciliation commission, criminal. This is just to say - william carlos williams.