Law 2101 Midterm: Law 101 Midterm Exam review

• School: Western University
• Department: Law
• Course: Law 2101
• Professor: Mysty Sybil Clapton

Document Summary

What is law: the publicly prescribed rules that you have to follow, failing may result in suffering some consequences, a reflection of common values of society, the process by which disputes are resolved. Judges: not elected, but rather appointed, make in the law course of resolving disputes, do not (usually) just make up the law, guided be precedent, principle, statute, and constitution. In ontario, the highest court that binds all other courts in the province is the court of appeal for. Judge is to be a neutral arbiter: distinguished from inquisitorial system. Judges in inquisitorial are given the power to order scientific reports, ask questions, interview witnesses: the judge runs the show. Interpreting the law: the rules or their application to a future matter, are not always clear and therefore must be interpreted, several rules exist of how to interpret these rules.