Law Homework & Handouts

Mr. Mansour's Web Site, JRHS
2017-18 School Year
[Law 802/812: Homework & Handouts]

UNIT 1: Law, Society, and You
• Unit 1 Handout (notes)
• Handout: Lady Justice
• Unit 1 Questions (Parts 1 and 2 on page 6); due Wednesday, September 13 (Day 3)
• Unit 1 Test: Includes all of the material in the unit 1 notes, handouts, and discussions; Friday, September 15 (Day 5)

UNIT 2: Canada’s Legal Heritage & Contract Law
• Assignment 2.1: Canada's Legal Heritage (essay); due Wednesday, October 11 (Day 2)
• Unit 2 Questions 1-13; due date t.b.d.
• Unit 2 Questions 14-26; due date t.b.d.

• Most of the following lessons contain a series of questions and case studies. They will be due the day after they are
  handed out in class.
  > Contract Law, Lesson 1*: What is a contract?
  > Contract Law, Lesson 2*: Categories of contracts and the statute of frauds
  > Contract Law, Lesson 3*: Capacity to contract and unenforceable contracts
  > Contract Law, Lesson 4*: Young people and contracts
  > Contract Law, Lesson 5*: Ending a contract and breach of contracts
  > Contract Law, Lesson 6*: The consumer protection act
  > Contract Law, Lesson 7a*: Intellectual property - copyright
  > Contract Law, Lesson 7b*: Intellectual property - patents, trademarks and industrial designs
  * Special thanks to the Public Legal Education Association of Saskatchewan (PLEA) for the creation of these
    wonderful handouts, for allowing them to be saved as separate documents and for allowing them to be posted on this
    web site.

UNIT 3: Our Justice System
• For this unit, students will be taking notes from the board and will be encouraged to participate in class discussions.
• Students are responsible for obtaining any missed notes from their classmates.
• Mid-Unit 3 Test: All notes up to (and including) how laws are created in QC; Monday, November 13 (Day 6)
• Assignment 3.1: Our Government Structure; due Monday, November 27 (Day 2)
• Assignment 3.2: Canadian Government (grid); due date t.b.d.
• Unit 3 Test: All notes, videos, handouts, assignments, discussions; Monday, November 27 (Day 2)
• Assignment 3.3: Who keeps the engagement ring; due Monday, December 4 (Day 1)

UNIT 4: Rights, Freedoms, and Responsibilities
• The Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms
• Assignment 4.1: Carparison of Charters; due Monday, December 18, 2017
• Unit 4 Test: All notes, videos, handouts, assignments, discussions; Monday, December 18 (Day 5)
• Term 2 Project: Project Overview; due Monday, February 5 (Day 5)
  Term 2 Project: It's Your Right (booklet)

UNIT 5: Criminal Law
• Handout: Fact pattern
• Case: Infanticide
• Case: R. v. Tran, 2010 SCC 58, [2010] 3 S.C.R. 350
• Case: R v. Briscoe [2010] 1 SCR 411
• Case: Sansregret v. The Queen, [1985] 1 SCR 570
• Case: R v. Browne [1997] 33 O.R. (3d) 775
• Case: R. v. Wholesale Travel Group Inc., [1991] 3 S.C.R. 154
• Case: R v. Chehil, 2009 NSCA 111 (sniffer dogs)
• Case: R. v. Sinclair, 2010 SCC 35, [2010] 2 SCR 310 (interrogations)
• Assignment: Students will use the "R v. Briscoe [2010] 1 SCR 411" case.
  - Student will complete fact patterns for each person involved in the case.
  - Students will then present their fact pattern to the class; due Monday, March 19th (Day 5)
• Mid-Unit 5 Test; Friday, March 23 (Day 3)

UNIT 6: Youth Justice
• Information not yet available

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