Scenarios (substantive, procedural, public, private, SPECIFIC law)
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Cases
100
Everyone has the right to be secure against unreasonable search or seizure?
What is Section 8
100
The knowledge, intent or recklessness of one's actions
What is mens rea?
100
A youth is arrested for committing a break and enter.
What is public law?
100
What year did the Canadian Human Rights Act come into effect?
What is 1977?
100
A famous case when killing Parker before his natural death would better preserve his blood to drink. The individuals held him down and pushed a penknife into his jugular vein.
What is R. v. Dudley and Stephens?
200
Every citizen of Canada has the right to vote in an election of members of the House of Commons
What is Section 3?
200
Encouraging, inciting or urging another person to commit a crime
What is abetting?
200
A store owner agrees to sell you a chocolate bar at a specified price. Which specific law?
What is contract law?
200
For every crime there should be a deserved punishment
and
This is paying back the victim for the harm done by an offender
(2 words)
What is retribution and restitution?
200
On October 24th a father killed his 12 year old daughter by placing her in the cab of his pickup truck, ran a hose from the exhaust to the cab killing her with carbon monoxide.
What is R. v. Latimer?
300
Everyone has the right to life, liberty and security of the person and the right not to be deprived thereof
What is Section 7?
300
Criminal offence that may be tried at the Crown's option as a summary conviction with the corresponding less or more severe punishment
What is hybrid offence?
300
A law that makes it illegal to possess a controlled drug?
What is procedural law?
300
The Early History of Law composed together has created today's laws. Name 3 historic laws that helped contribute to today's law
What are Code of Hammurabi, Mosaic Law, Roman Law, Napoleonic code, British Common Law, Quebec Civil Code
300
This case is well known for a victim who had a terminal disease and was told that she only had three years to live. She committed suicide with the help of an anonymous doctor.
What is Rodriguez v. British Columbia
400
Any person charged with an offence has the right to be tried within a reasonable time
What is Section 11(b)?
400
In a court case, the party who opposes the appeal requested by the other party the appeal in a discrimination case
OR
the person who is alleged to have committed an act of discrimination
What is unintentional discrimination?
400
A law that makes it illegal to assault another person.
What is substantive law?
400
The three ways to apprehend an offender
What are appearance notice, arrest with a warrant, arrest without a warrant?
400
A social studies teacher in Alberta, taught his students his personal view of history which included that the Holocaust never occurred and that there was a worldwide conspiracy by Jewish people.
What is R. v. Keegstra?
500
Every individual is equal before and under the law and has the right to the equal protection and equal benefit of the law without discrimination(must be accurate)
What is Section 15(1)?
500
Actions that appear to be neutral but that effectively discriminate against most members of a group
What is unintentional discrimination?
500
You attend a demonstration and are attested for unlawful assembly. What is the specific law?
What is criminal law?
500
Name 3 people involved in a crime
Who is the perpetrator, the aiding person, the abetting person, the counseling person, the person accessory after the fact.
500
This case ruled that just because the accused had a small quantity of narcotics, that was no reason to assume that he intended to traffic it. The appeal was dismissed.