POLS 3130 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Elementary Cellular Automaton, Brian Dickson, Supreme Court Act
10 Dec 2015
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Actors in the process: governments and interest groups in. Sponsor a case pay for or provide the legal counsel. Intervene in a case submit factums or provide oral evidence in support of an issue in the ca. Government in court most frequent litigants in the court system. Attorney general is the government"s of cial lawyer also a sitting member of cabinet (minister of justice) concern over political role of ag led to creation of director of public prosecutions in. 5 ways in which the government can nd themselves in court: prosecution of offences the crown in criminal cases represents the victim of the offence and broader society"s interest. Federal government makes the laws, but it is widely prosecuted by the provinces except for narcotics, income tax fraud, illegal offshore shing, terrorism, war crimes, crimes against humanity, gang membership, rearms offences. Provinces believe that some of these are criminal offences and that they should prosecute them.
