RSM100Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Provincial And Territorial Courts In Canada, Law Of Agency, Statutory Law
31 Mar 2016
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Administraive agencies like the crts also perform some limited judicial funcions, but administraive agencies are more properly viewed as regulatory branches of government. Canada"s court system is divided between federal and provincial legislatures. Generally, the federal government has exclusive power over areas that concern the enire country like criminal law, defence, currency, and telecommunicaions. The provinces rule mainly on civil maters such as property law. Provinces may empower municipal governments to pass local laws. Both federal and provincial courts hear civil and criminal maters. The supreme court of canada will hear only lower-level appeal court cases that its selects. These cases are chosen on the basis of their perceived importance to the enire country. Generally speaking, each province has a similar court structure with provincial court level and superior court level. Provincial court levels deal with minor and civil cases. Superior courts will deal with more serious maters, including murder. There are also several specialized courts like tax court.
