SOCI-225 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Procedural Justice
9 Jan 2021
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If fair procedures aren"t used the trial cannot be just, whether or not substantive justice was attained. In canada today, issues involving procedural justice are more common than those involving substantive justice. For example, the anti-terrorism act, when it was introduced, gave the federal government powers allowing them to ignore certain aspects of procedural justice when national security was considered to be at stake. Central to this is that no one individual or group has a privileged exemption from the law unless an exception is identified. The rule of law plays a central role in our society as it "forms part of the supreme law of our country, binding on all levels of government and enforceable by the courts": scope of the law. This means that there should be no privileged exemptions to the law. All people come under the rule of law. There are political and social aspects to this statement.
