1. What is law?
2. Law and laws: Difference?
3. Law and Justice: Difference:
4. Natural Law, Legal Realism, Positivist School of Law
5. Why we need law- Comparing Guatemala and Canada
6. You and your Rights regarding police encounters.
7. Basic Elements of Law: Burden of Proof, Hierarchy of Law, Difference between indictable offences and summary conviction offenses.
8. Hierarchy of the court system.
9. Rule of Law
10. Jurisdiction
11. Judicial Independence
Topics to be covered in October and November
12. Charter of Rights and Freedoms
13. Human Rights Laws
14. Criminal Law: What is a crime? Elements of charging a person
15. Court Watching (Oct 28)
16. Stephen Truscott
17. Duvinder Singh in The Jury
18. Mock Trials