POLI 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 21: Canadian Judicial Council, Sunday Shopping
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Judiciary basic tasks: adjudication of disputes, private parties, public law. Judicial review: sometimes there is a lack of clarity in what the law says. Adjudication/inquiries: service to society for civil matters(private law) Judicial review: constitutions require interpretation, source of substantial political power, not looki(cid:374)g for po(cid:449)er (cid:271)ut. How cases get to court: real cases, big m drug mart and sunday shopping, reference cases, reference re: secession of quebec. Judicial review: to solve a dispute, you might need to interpret the relevant law, hold law up to standards of the constitution, effectively a change in the law. Implicit in adjudicative model: free from prejudice, appeal: Incentive to be fair: not unlimited, adversarial character. Independent of the executive: security of tenure, salaries fixed by law. Judicial self-administration: er(cid:448)e o(cid:374) (cid:858)good (cid:271)eha(cid:448)ior(cid:859) u(cid:374)til 75, removable, but with difficulty. Judges police themselves canadian judicial council: equality before the law (cid:858) i(cid:373)ilar i(cid:374) pri(cid:374)(cid:272)iple to the uk(cid:859)
