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SPMA 2P96 - Exam #1- codified set of rules and regulations set by the government
- enforced by judiciary - correct answer ✔✔What is the definition of law?
- stabilization
- prevent chaos
- maintain power
- maintain order
- used as a mechanism of social control - correct answer ✔✔Why do we have laws?
1. Lower court (1st instance, usually always goes here first)
2. Supperior/Upper court ( more serious)
3. Appeal court (decision upheld or appealed)
4. Supreme court (final court of appeal, sets precedents) - correct answer ✔✔What is Canada's court
hierarchy?
- consistent
- clear what will happen
- like cases are treated alike - correct answer ✔✔What are the pros of precedents?
- bad judge can make a bad precedent
- things change in society
- rigid way of decision making (hard to change) - correct answer ✔✔What are the cons of precedents?
- have had their rights violated and are sueing one another for damages (tort law) - correct answer
✔✔What is private law?
, state (province) or government has been violated or harmed (criminal law) - correct answer ✔✔What is
public law?
- fancy way of saying sport law
- aka lex ludica (means game not sport) - correct answer ✔✔What is lex sportiva?
- Pierre Trudeau (1982)
- made to protect us from the government
- makes sure government doesn't violate our rights - correct answer ✔✔What is the charter of rights and
freedoms?
- who is responsible and to what extent
- managers can be held responsible for those below them - correct answer ✔✔What is liability?
- no unified code that says whats right and wrong
- not enough cases to form a distinct law field - correct answer ✔✔Why is sport law not a specialized
area of law?
- people have the right to know what they are being accused of, what the evidence is, and what the
punishment could be
- also have the right to defend themselves
- innocent until proven guilty - correct answer ✔✔What is due process?
- specific aspects of sport and how they relate to the law
- it is unique, gets special exemptions sometimes - correct answer ✔✔What is sport specificity?
- Administrative law
- Privacy law
- Human rights law
- Labor and employment law
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