Wednesday, September 28, 2016

CLU 3m test is Monday October 3

IT is on CH 1-2
heritage of law
charter
charter cases
judicial activism
charter landmark cases
key terms written in black in the textbook
oakes
keegstra
multani
butler
jti mcDonald
Sauve
Roderiguez
R v Mann
R v AM
Tessling
Charkaoui
Vreind v Alberta
R v Collins
Irwin Toy

Monday, September 26, 2016

CLU 3m security cert in class work Sept 27

https://www.thestar.com/news/immigration/2016/08/02/mohamed-harkat-girds-himself-for-another-fight-to-stay.html

http://news.nationalpost.com/news/canada/canadian-politics/justin-trudeaus-brother-lobbies-liberals-to-not-deport-terror-suspect-mohamed-harkat

Your assignment is to write a formal letter to a politician about your thoughts on security certificates. You may use cases from the movie to back up your points or reference articles from the news including the ones listed above. The letter is due by Wednesday at the end of class.


Address your letter to:

The Minister For Public Safety
Hon. Ralph Goodale

ralph.goodale@parl.gc.ca

House of CommonsOttawa, OntarioCanadaK1A 0A6

Don't forget to CC Your MP at Nathaniel.Erskine-Smith@parl.gc.ca

Friday, September 23, 2016

Thursday, September 22, 2016

CLN closing arguments

CLN 4U   Closing Argument Assignment
To prepare you for the eventual mock trial you are to write an imagined closing argument for one of the trial of Socrates, Drummond Wren, Christie v. York,   Viola Desmond or Lavallee.
You may choose to be either prosecution or defense.
This will be three paragraphs total. You will hand the typed copy in via www.turnitin.com, but you must bring your own copy to class.
Turn it in class ID: 13531291
Password: ferry
You will orally deliver your closing arguments to the class from our podium. It does not have to be memorized. You have one minute to deliver your argument.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E8t4RNwt3TA

CLN 4U Test is Tues Sept 27

Here are the topics:

legal heritage
philosophers
people who changed the law(mind map peeps)
5 cases from group presentations
Brown case
Plessy case
Journey to Justice cases
rule of law
faith based cases

Friday, September 16, 2016

CLU 3m Sept 16

https://wwhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YAIM1qzO9_ww.youtube.com/watch?v=7C8uDuhLqvg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7C8uDuhLqvg

and charter

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YAIM1qzO9_whttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YAIM1qzO9_w

Tuesday, September 13, 2016

Work for CLN 4U Sept 14.

Work for CLN 4U Sept 14.
Assembly day

1.4 mind map presentations
2.Review Lobby groups
3.Royal Commissions
4.Legal Scholarship.
Homework is R v Lavallee case

Tomorrow is legal philosophers.

grade 11 videos for how a bill becomes law

democracy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YNMAasqiv9Y  and
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eqV9LWie2bs

Canadian government
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6WNrsnRjtxQ


 levels of gov't
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BwbnUkxcrV8


 how a bill becomes a law
http://tvo.org/story/civics101-animation-how-law-made

political parties
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-XlUICruITE

Monday, September 12, 2016

Turn it in CLN4U
Class ID: 13531291
password: ferry
CLU 3M-In class case study for marks on Sept 13. Bring your notebook.

You must know the following terms:

Precedent
Necessity
Citation
Common Law
Customs
Regina
criminal law
civil law
actus reus
mens rea