LAW 201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Kaustinen, Family Law, Private Law
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Lecture capture: public law, mostly criminal, includes administrative/regulatory, quasi-criminal (i. e. Highway traffic act: issue is usually something other than money (liberty, permission, punishment, private law. Contracts: family law, estates, issue is almost always money, mostly comes from judicial decisions (common law provinces, parties in a criminal case are always the crown vs. an individual/corporation, r. v. name, firac. Facts: parties, events, claims (what does each side want), procedural history. Tuesday, may 15th, 2018: analysis section must match up with issues and rule. If you identify 3 issues, your analysis section should have 3 components: conclusion section tells the reader the result in the case. Is there a tort of invasion of privacy in canada? (a tort is a civil wrong compensated by money) If so, what is required to prove it: how much money is it worth, the rule is not, the holding in the case, the result of the case, the arguments made by both sides, don"t muddle around!
