SOSC 1375 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Indictable Offence, Summary Offence, Black Sheep
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Summary: courts are passive and only get involved after the incident has taken place or matters are brought to them for resolution. Everyone is allowed to use courts for their legal disputes and judges are expected to be impartial and judge based on the facts, not personal preference. Summary: there are three types of disputes that represent the workload of canadian. Courts rarely solve disputes, but rather process them. Summary: there are two levels of government: provincial and federal. There are: provincial/territorial courts, provincial/territorial supreme courts and the federal court, provincial/territorial courts of appeal and federal court of appeal, and the supreme court of canada. At the provincial/territorial level, there are courts that are devoted to particular types of cases, like the drug treatment court or youth courts. Court of canada is the highest court in canada and has nal say.