Intro to law
Substantive and Procedural Law
What are the two main divisions of Law In Canada?
This Document Guarantees the Rights of all Canadians
What is the Charter of Rights and Freedoms?
These are considered “minor offences” in Canada.
What are Summary Offences?
When a regular citizen arrests someone in the act of committing an offence.
What is a citizen's arrest?
The Bench
What is another name for the Judge?
These are the two divisions of “Substantive Law”
What are Public and Private Law?
This document outlines the laws and their punishments in Canada.
What is the Criminal Code of Canada?
These are the “serious offences”.
What are indictable offences?
In “general terms”, the Police need this before properly conducting a search.
What are Reasonable and Probable Grounds?
6 and 12
What is the number of jurors in a Civil and Criminal Trial?
R v. Klassen 2022.
What is a Public Law citation?
In a criminal trial, the Crown must prove the case against the accused.
What is the Burden of Proof?
These two things need to be proven by the Crown to find a person guilty of an offence.
What are “Actus Reus” and “Mens Rea”?
Identify the premises, the criminal offence, what is being looked for, and the judge’s signature.
What are the four things needed on a search warrant?
The first step in a Trial.
What is the arraignment?
Criminal, Constitutional, and Administrative
What are the three types of Public Law in Canada?
We have these three rights if we have been charged with an offence.
What are:
1.The right to be tried within a reasonable time.
2.Told the Offence.
3.And tried within a reasonable time
This symbol of fairness holds scales to represent the impartiality of the court's decisions and a sword as a symbol of the power of justice as it is in most courthouses.
Who is Lady Justice?
The behavior might cause serious harm to others, the suspect is fleeing or there are no alternative means to prevent escape.
When Police are allowed to use serious or deadly force to apprehend the suspect?
Crown starts with the examination in chief.
What is the first step of presenting evidence in a trial?
These are the 5 Types of Civil/Private Law.
What are: Tort, Family, Contract, Property, and Labor and Employment Law?
These are the four Fundamental Freedoms we can expect from or Government.
What are:
1-Freedom of Conscience and Religion, 2- Freedom of Thought, Belief, Opinion and Expression?
This is a type of “Element of an Offence” when the person has a reason to commit an offence.
What is Motive?
In the correct order, these are what police do and say while they arrest someone.
1.Notice on Arrest
2.Advise they are under arrest and the charge.
3.Caution #1-Right to Counsel.
Caution #2-Right the Remain Silent and
#5-Physically touch them?
Three things jurors are not allowed to do while they are sitting on a jury and they are not with other jurors.
1.Discuss case with anyone other than jurors.
2.Follow media reports about the case.
3.Disclose any information from jury discussions
This system of law in Canada consists of two opposing sides presenting their case in court
What is the adversarial system?