LAWS 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Verdict, Jury Trial, Authoritarianism
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Jury lawleness is the great corrective of law in its actual administration. The jury allowed morgentaler to be acquitted. (page 73, nelson)* Wilson j: by removing women"s ability to make the decision giving it to a committee would be a violation of their liberty and security of a person. Wilson noted that the state if taking control of a women"s capacity to reproduce. A dissent was written by mclntyre j. with la forest j. concurring. Mclntyre nds that there is no right to abortions in section 7 or any other laws. An ancient welch king morgan of glamorgan established trial by jury in ad 725. Was most likely imported to england with the normand conquest found in the magna carta (you should be judged by peers). It was rst used as a source of information under oath during a trial. Before the 12th century, most trial was by ordeal: water, re, etc.
