Provincial Courts Flashcards
What are indictable offences
More serious cases
Summary offences
Less serious cases handled by lowers courts
What are provinces responsible for
For the administration of justice in Canada
What is a jury
Made up do adult citizens called at random from the community, if called to be on justly it is your legal duty to do so
What are the safe guards
That’s we a have a judge and a jury
That we can appeal yeh desisions of kowers courts to higher court
Supreme Court of Canada
The highest court for all legal issues in Canada since 1949.
It decides on constitutional issues and acts as the final court of appeal for some criminal cases.
There are nine members, and the Governor General and prime minister appoints them, three of the nine members must be from Quebec.