Legal Research and Writing

January 17, 2017

Difference between regulation and by-law.

Regulations: also called subordinate or delegated
legislation, are rules made under the authority of
an enabling statute
Bylaw: law made by a body (here, a municipal
government) that is granted the power to do so by
a legislature

Bureaucracy, the structure of administration

Ministry
Agency (for example, the Canadian Revenue
Agency (CRA))
Statute is the broad policy, and delegate to
agencies the power to make regulations for the
administration of that statute.
Judiciary makes common law (or case law)
through precedent

Chapter 4 Cases
Covers civil, criminal and administrative

R stands for regina or rex

Crown represents the state in criminal case

Ratio decidendi (reason for the decision): often

simply called the ratio, a combined statement of the
pre-existing principle of law on which the judge
based the decision on an issue and its application
to the facts of the particular case; Latin for reason
for deciding
Assignment #1
Statutes of Canada
Canadian Encyclopedic Digest
Dominion Law Report