SOC 3730 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Superior Court, Supreme Court Act, Rieti

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

Document Summary

The modern canadian court system can be built up logically from a few basic principled, something that is increasingly appropriate because the court system is being consolidated. First: identify the more routine cases and those that involve less serious possible outcomes and assign them to an accessible high volume, low delay court, preferably one that sits in many different centres. Second: assign the less routine and more serious cases to a lower volume court that can devote more time and focus attention to each case. Third: establish a court of appeal to correct simple errors and to promote uniformity in the application of the law within each province. Fourth: esta(cid:271)lish a (cid:862)ge(cid:374)eral (cid:272)ourt of appeal(cid:863) to pro(cid:373)ote u(cid:374)ifor(cid:373)it(cid:455) i(cid:374) the appli(cid:272)atio(cid:374) of the la(cid:449) (cid:449)ithi(cid:374) the country and to provide judicial leadership. Fifth: create a system of federal courts for cases directly involving the federal government as a part or raising issues concerning the administrative law applied by federal departments.