FOUNDATIONAL PRINCIPLES OF THE CANADIAN JUSTICE SYSTEM Law 12 Unit 1 Justice: What does justice look like?

Objectives  Be able to name and describe 6 identified principles of the Canadian justice system.  Communicate an understanding of the relevance of the 6 principles by ranking them in a hierarchical order of relative importance.

Principles.

Principles of Justice.  innocent until proven guilty  separate but equal (equality, equity)  objective vs subjective standards  accountability  checks and balances  sovereignty

Principles of Justice.  innocent until proven guilty In Sum: 1.What does it mean? 2.Why is it important? 3.How is it challenged or compromised?

Principles of Justice.  separate but equal (equality, equity) In Sum: 1.What does it mean? 2.Why is it important? 3.How is it challenged or compromised?

Principles of Justice.  objective vs subjective standards In Sum: 1.What does it mean? 2.Why is it important? 3.How is it challenged or compromised?

Principles of Justice.  accountability “A body of men holding themselves accountable to nobody ought not to be trusted by anybody.” ― Thomas PaineThomas Paine “It is wrong and immoral to seek to escape the consequences of one's acts.” ― Mahatma GandhiMahatma Gandhi “In our tribunal, we look only at personal criminal responsibility in a very tightly defined, narrow way and we demand proof beyond a resonable doubt about the involvement of the individual. We do no have a mandate to establish the moral responsibility of those who saw things happen and did nothing, including people who might have had the capacity to stop the process and did nothing. But we have to be careful in thinking that just because we focus on individual criminal guilt we therefore absolve the community. The old distinctions are too simplistic when we move up the chain of command and witness the merging of the collectivity into the personae of these charismatic political and military leaders.' -Louise Arbour, Chief Prosecutor for International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia” In Sum: 1.What does it mean? 2.Why is it important? 3.How is it challenged or compromised?

Principles of Justice.  checks and balances In Sum: 1.What does it mean? 2.Why is it important? 3.How is it challenged or compromised?

Principles of Justice.  sovereignty In Sum: 1.What does it mean? 2.Why is it important? 3.How is it challenged or compromised?

Principles of Justice.  innocent until proven guilty  separate but equal  objective vs subjective standards  accountability  checks and balances  sovereignty Can these be considered in a hierarchical order?

Thinking Exercises for Next Class: 1.Can you rank the principles in a hierarchical order? If so, what is your system. If not, why? 2.Where are the tension points between the principles? 3.Are there principles missing? Notebook > Thinking Exercises > One Pagers> Major Term Work