CRIM 135 Midterm: CRIM-135 - Midterm Study Guide
7 Jan 2014
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The role of law & sources of canadian law. Individual perspective each person"s opinion on the law. Bna provinces given power to create policing and courts, federal government creates criminal law. Section 91, 92 (powers of creating legislation) Police, courts, government act in a certain fashion in respect to the individual rights. Supreme court doesn"t have to hear appeal. Law is the skeleton that structures our economic, social, and political lives. It is also a barometer of the nation"s view of human relations. Our attitudes toward law define us as citizens of our society, politically, economically, and morally. Our individual perceptions of justice and injustice define our relationship as citizens to the state. Positivists are not concerned with a law"s moral content. Natural law: insist on a clear link between law and morality. An unjust law is no law at all.
