Exam Flashcards
What are the legal disabilities in Ontario
Brain injury Mental illness Deafness Epilepsy Development disability Behaviour problems Physical disabilities Substance abuse Learning problems Blindness Obesity
Habeas corpus
Document that requires a person to be brought to court to determine if he is being legally detained
Code of hammarabi
First set of written rules
Magna Carta
No one is above the law
Difference between rules and laws
Rules apply to only a certain group
Laws apply to everyone
Grow op
Enterprise or facility engaged in growing and selling marijuana
Precedent
When they look back a previous decisions in court
Occupying movement
Movement protesting economic inequality
Voir dire
Trial within a trial to determine the admissibility of evidence
Struck down
To strike down a law
Persons case
Canadian constitutional case that decided that women were eligible to sit in the senate of Canada
Summary offence
Doesn’t need the accused person to be present at court ( lesser offences )
1867
Canada becomes a country
Men’s rea
Mentally understanding what your doing
Actus rea
The action of what your doing
