COMMERCE 4PA3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: International Wheelchair And Amputee Sports Federation, Lexx, Sexual Assault
12 Jul 2017
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Historical development of canadian criminal code judicial impact. Ability of state to constrain our liberty you cannot do these things, hence you go against the state. Derived form uk; developed by uk to what was wrong . treason, felonies (murder, rape) and ??? the courts developed these , hence limitation on crown. Canada adopted one of these codes from british parliament as our state of criminal law, in 1892. Canadian courts contd to rec common law as offenses, and indv contc to be prosecuted under judge made laws until 1950"s, then all common law offenses were incorporated in the criminal code or abolished. Judges now do not have the authority to make laws, Contd to have authority to render decisions that may have a big impact; Constitutionality jurisdiction to determine whether the government is acting within its scope under its jurisdiction. Courts can a do stripe down laws.
