SOC 3740 Chapter Notes - Chapter 10: Personal Injury, Rational Agent, Big Business
2 Feb 2017
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Canada"s courts: chapter 10: winning and losing in canada"s courts. Canada has tried to design a judicial system in which independent, professional judges operate under rigorous procedures to make decisions in accordance with established law. Overall, operations of the legal and judicial system tend to factor some segments of society more than others- some interests therefore approach the courts willingly and with enthusiasm while others do so only with reluctance. The outcome of this independence, professionalism, rigorous impartiality, and established law is by and large to perpetuate privilege and to protect the interests of dominant groups . Shift from viewing the operations of the judicial system as neutral process to seeing it as one where general advantage is perpetuated has several logical components, first explored systematically by. A large part of the courts workload is derived from a relatively narrow number of areas.
