CRIM 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Ontario Provincial Police, English Criminal Law, Trial Division
13 Nov 2017
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Criminal laws include both a prohibition and a prescribed punishment governments through the courts and criminal ode in order to ensure public. The origins of criminal law inherited from english common law. Most of the criminal laws in canada murder, robbery, assault were. England doesn"t have a criminal code per se. ; rather, english criminal law operates on the principle of (cid:498)common law(cid:499) Canada adopted its own criminal code in 1892, although it retained to power to create common law until the 1950s. English body of law defined through successive decision by judges, over generations and over centuries. Canadian judges are permitted to exercise discretion in their decisions. Often write detailed legal explanations to justify their decisions (similar to common law) Canadian law crimes were abolished in canada in 1953, when canadian. Some legal decisions (ie. supreme court of canada decisions) can become binding on lower courts, but canadian judges are still bound/constrained by legislation (ie. the criminal code)
