Principles
What is lower?
What is the Supreme Court of Canada?
The name of the superior court in Alberta
What is Court of King's Bench?
Public law matters involve the government and an individual or business; _____ law matters involve matters between individuals and/or businesses.
What is private?
Most of Canada uses this system inherited from the UK.
What is the Common Law legal system.
A case (judge's decision) that is binding on courts of the same level or lower levels.
What is precedent?
This is where one would likely appeal from a Superior Court.
What is a provincial court of appeal?
Courts (and tribunals) of limited jurisdiction are created by this.
What is legislation?
Domestic law is made within a nation-state; _______ is made between countries/nation-states.
What is international law?
Jurisdictions that use a civil code as the primary source of law usually follow this legal system.
What is a civil law legal system?
The principle that a case, once decided on its merits, cannot be re-tried by another court.
What is Res judicata?
Dominico was sued for $1.5 million dollars and lost his case at the Ontario Superior Court of Justice. He may be able to appeal his case here.
What is the Ontario Court of Appeal?
Superior courts are created by this in Canada.
What is the constitution?
The right to a fair trial is an example of a right under this type of law.
What is procedural law?
The province of Quebec in Canada is a mixed system; these two systems are used.
What are civil law and common law?
The doctrine that courts will adhere to precedent in making their decisions.
What is stare decicis?
Jeevan successfully sued Tina for $35,000 in Alberta. Tina is likely to appeal to this court.
What is the Court of King's Bench?
Traffic tickets, many criminal law cases, and many private law (civil) matters are decided at this court in Alberta.
What is the Alberta Court of Justice?
Tort law, contract law, and property law fall under this category of law, which is sometimes called civil law.
What is private law?
The type of legal system likely used in a theocracy.
What is religious law?
As opposed to the Ratio, or the reasons for deciding a case, judge's remarks that are made in passing are known as this.
What is obiter dicta?
What is the Federal Court?
Olu thinks that his employer has discriminated against him, on the basis of his race and place of origin. He would most likely bring a case at this Alberta court/tribunal.
What is the Alberta Human Rights Commission?
Rights and obligations; rules about things other than process are called this.
When the practices passed down by members of a community are understood as binding on community members, one is likely seeing _______ in action.
Customary law