LAWS 2302 Lecture 1: Introduction
24 Jan 2018
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Course is a venue for further critical analysis and exploration of, the current canadian. Criminal legal system including its institutions, processes, rules and actors. Criminal law will be studied within its general social setting and to examine the interrelationship between the aspirations and practices of canadian society and its formal legal discourses of criminal law. Criminal law legitimate exercise of state force against individual that engages liberty. Criminal law is federal jurisdiction under the constitution act, 1867 s. 91 (27) Provinces have legislative competence to put into place certain regulatory penalties with fairly severe consequences under ss. Both have certain prohibitions outside of criminal code (cc)
