CLN4U Law Test 1 Review
1. What is Case Law? What are the basics of a Criminal Case (i.e. crown and accused)?
2. What is an appeal? What are the basics of a Civil Case (i.e. plaintiff and defendant)?
3. What is the doctrine of stare decisis? What is Precedent?
4. Case Citations (know both Criminal and Civil versions)
5. What is the Appeal Process? What are grounds for an Appeal? What are the options to
the Court of Appeal?
6. R. v. Vaillancourt (principle of foreseeability)
7. What is Objective and Subjective Foreseeability?
8. What is the nature of the Law? What is Jurisprudence?
9. What are Primary and Secondary Sources of Law (be able to describe each)
a. Customs (adverse possession)
b. Conventions (Geneva Convention)
c. Religion
d. Social and Political
e. Constitutional Law
f. Statutes and Regulations
10. What is the legal hierarchy in Canada (including what are material facts, uniformity and
impartiality)
11. What is Natural Law and Positive Law?
12. Who were the following legal thinkers and what was their view of law/society?
a. Socrates
b. Plato
c. Aristotle
d. St. Thomas Aquinas
e. Thomas Hobbes
f. John Locke
13. What is Legal Formalism and Legal Realism? (including economic & feminist
Jurisprudence)
14. What is Justitia?
15. Reasons for Legal Reform? (x5)
• Test will have Multiple Choice, Short and Medium responses, and a case to draft legal
arguments.