Introduction to the Law and Legal System of Canada
What’s inside
Table of contents
Details and specs:
This introductory text is intended to demystify the law and to provide information on the key components of the Canadian legal system including chapters on:
- The nature of law and competing theories of law
- Legal pluralism - how the Canadian legal system interacts with various religious legal systems
- Sources of Canadian law including legislation and caselaw
- The legal history of Britain, the reception of English law in Canada, the history of Civil Law in Quebec, and the bijural system
- The Constitution and the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms
- The structure of Canadian government
- Courts across Canada and the work of judges and lawyers
- Problems regarding access to justice
- Substantive law including Criminal Law, Property Law, Contract Law, and Tort Law
- Procedural laws governing civil disputes and criminal prosecutions
- Publisher:
- Carswell
- Practice Area:
- Legal Research, Legal Writing
- Jurisdiction:
- General
- Publication Date:
- 2013-04-19
- Hardcover Specifications
- Service #:
- 30836042
- Sub #:
- 30836042
- Pages:
- Not available
- Shelf Space:
- Not available
- Volume:
- Not available
- Anticip Unkeep Cost:
- Not available
- eBook Specifications
- ISBN:
- 9780779853304