SOC 3730 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Bora Laskin, Supreme Court Of Canada, Patriation Reference

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 3730
• Professor: Michelle Dumas

Document Summary

One of the anomalies of the sc is that it was not created by the document that united. British north american colonies to form the dominion of canada. After the constitution act in 1867, the parliament of canada, went to establish a general court of appeal with the sc unilaterally created as well. Judicial committee of the privy council body established in 1833, advisory to the monarch but staffed with respected judges and law persons serving as a final court of appeal for the british empire. Per saltum appeals before 1900 came from quebec. This year marked the year of the abolition. It increased the court to its present size of 9 and the number of appointments required from the bar of the province of quebec rose to 3. The supreme court blazed its own trail in three ways courts.