POLS 3300 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Effective Method, Canadian Civil Liberties Association, American Civil Liberties Union

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POLS 3300
• Professor: Dennis Baker

Document Summary

Pols 3130 oct 23, 25, 27 lecture notes. Influence public policy: raise profile of an issue, defend political and legal advances against other groups/ government. 5 gayme and seaboyer: ontario judicial system. Seaboyer and gayme request their committal for trial be quashed. Judge g(cid:396)a(cid:374)ts (cid:396)e(cid:395)uests o(cid:374) g(cid:396)ou(cid:374)ds that e(cid:272)tio(cid:374)s 2(cid:1011)(cid:1010) a(cid:374)d 2(cid:1011)(cid:1011) (cid:448)iolated the (cid:862)fai(cid:396)-t(cid:396)ial(cid:863) guarantees of the charter. Attorney general of ontario appeals to ontario court of appeal. Seaboyer and gayme appeal to the supreme court of canada. 6 - gayme and seaboyer: the supreme court of canada. Introduction of non-governmental interest groups: canadian civil liberties association [ccla, wo(cid:373)e(cid:374)"s legal edu(cid:272)atio(cid:374) a(cid:374)d action fund [leaf] Federal and provincial government intervenors: attorney generals of canada, quebec and sasketchewan. Why did the intervene: not interested in seaboyer and gayme, deepl(cid:455) (cid:272)o(cid:374)(cid:272)e(cid:396)(cid:374)s (cid:449)ith (cid:862)(cid:396)ape shield(cid:863) p(cid:396)o(cid:448)isio(cid:374)s. Sections designed to prevent the cross-examination or introduction of a (cid:272)o(cid:373)plai(cid:374)a(cid:374)ts" sexual history during trial.