SOC 3740 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Discretionary Jurisdiction, Provincial Superior, United States Territorial Court
2 Feb 2017
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Canada"s courts (chp 6): the supreme court of canada. Apex of the canadian judicial system is the supreme court of canada there"s no further legal appeal. The decision of the its nine judges constitute binding precedent for all other courts and judges. The emergence of the modern supreme court can be outline by describing three major duties in its history and filled in by identifying three minor ones. The establishment and evolution of the supreme court. One of the anomalies of the supreme court is that it was not created by a document that united the. British north american colonies to form the dominion of canada. Section 101 of the constitution act 1867 does not create a court but only empowers the parliament of. Canada to establish a general court of appeal, something that was not attempted until half a dozen years after the confederation and not achieved until 1875.
