Law 2101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Whois

• School: Western University
• Department: Law
• Course: Law 2101
• Professor: Mysty Sybil Clapton

Document Summary

The constitution is to be looked at in a general, progressive fashion. Before the charter, courts could not do anything about human rights problems. With the charter they believed the courts should be given rights to be able to strike down the la(cid:449)s that do(cid:374)(cid:859)t fall u(cid:374)de(cid:396) the cha(cid:396)te(cid:396) A statement of individual and collective rights and freedoms. Part of the canadian constitution (constitution act 1982) Patriated (bringing to canada) british north america act from uk parliament, and re-named it. Constitution act, 1867: also decided that uk could no longer adopt any measures that would affect canadian constitution. Created formal constitutional amending formula for the first time (ss. 38-49 of constitution. Created and entrenched bill of rights into canadian constitution ( charter of rights and. Freedoms: for the first time, canadians could claim fundamental rights in the courts, significantly increased powers of canadian judiciary, canada became a very influential country when other countries are ruling their constitution (constitutional super power)