Canadian Law Exam PDF

Multiple choice questions: The Rule of Law : The Function of Law : Laws maintain Restitution : Compensation principle that everyone, order, protect individuals' rights, provided to a victim for loss including government resolve disputes, and establish or harm caused...

Multiple choice questions: The Rule of Law : The Function of Law : Laws maintain Restitution : Compensation principle that everyone, order, protect individuals' rights, provided to a victim for loss including government resolve disputes, and establish or harm caused by a crime officials, is subject to standards for society. or civil wrongdoing. and accountable under the law. Habeus Corpus : A Non-elected Canadian law 1982 Constitution : legal safeguard makers : ensuring that a person The Canadian Constitution cannot be held in These include individuals or Act of 1982, which includes custody without just bodies that create or influence the Charter of Rights and cause and a trial. laws without being elected Freedoms, affirming representatives, such as: Canadians' rights. ​ Judges: Interpret laws and establish case law through rulings. ​ Senators: Appointed by the Prime Minister to review and suggest changes to legislation. ​ Civil Servants: Draft regulations and policies to implement laws. ​ Governor General: Provides royal assent to bills, making them official laws. Notwithstanding Reasonable Limits: Rights and Provincial Human Rights: Clause: Section 33 of freedoms in the Charter are not Legislation specific to the Charter allows absolute and can be limited if provinces ensuring equality governments to justified in a free and democratic and protection from override certain Charter society. discrimination. rights temporarily. Duty to Accommodate: Types of Murder: First-Degree Perpetrator: The individual Obligation to make Murder: Planned and deliberate who commits the crime. reasonable adjustments killing. for individuals, such as those with disabilities, Second-Degree Murder: without undue hardship. Intentional killing without premeditation. Manslaughter: Killing that results from negligence or recklessness without intent. Types of objections: Types of Evidence: Aggravating circumstance : Relevance: The evidence or question is Direct Evidence: Testimony or Factors increasing the unrelated to the case. proof directly linking a person to severity of a crime, such as a crime. cruelty or premeditation. Hearsay: Statements made outside the Circumstantial Evidence: courtroom presented as Indirect evidence that implies evidence. involvement. Leading Questions: Physical Evidence: Tangible Questions suggesting objects (e.g., weapons, an answer, typically fingerprints). prohibited during direct examination. Burden of Proof : The Assumption of Risk: defense in Intentional torts : obligation to prove the tort law where the plaintiff Deliberate acts causing claims made in a case, knowingly accepts the risks harm, such as assault or typically resting on the involved in an activity. defamation. prosecution in criminal cases. Marriage requirement ; Labour law violation: Breaches Supervised custody order : Legal conditions for of rules governing marriage, including age, employer-employee A court-ordered consent, and relationships, such as unpaid arrangement where a minor compliance with wages or unsafe working is placed under close marriage laws. conditions.  supervision in a structured facility. Driving Liability : Legal Caveat Emptor : Latin for "Let Police search : Searches responsibility for harm the buyer beware," emphasizing conducted by law caused while operating buyer responsibility to check the enforcement, which must a vehicle. quality of goods before adhere to rights under the purchase. Charter of Rights and Freedoms. Property crimes : Actus Reus: The physical act or Statute of limitations : The Offenses involving the unlawful conduct in a crime. time limit within which legal theft or destruction of proceedings must be property, such as initiated. burglary or vandalism. Vicarious liability: Legal Alternative dispute resolution: Jurisdiction of marriage responsibility of one party for the actions of Methods to resolve conflicts Authority to govern another, such as without litigation, such as marriage laws, often employers for mediation and arbitration. divided between federal employees' actions. and provincial levels in Canada.