Law Week 5

BC youth law stuff

Rights of the individual

Arrest

Citizens arrest etc.

a) Rest of handout - cases….

b) Law Wiki - vocabulary review (with projector - student created.  What do you know? Come and add entries as we go)

c) ?

Tues

Take up Wagner case (#5)

Women and the law.  Need to put forth a compelling case, particularly against the jokes that degrade women.

Note 2 articles

Plus - the article about murders at the University of Montreal

Stereotype

Misogyny

Monday

a) Zdeno Chara and criminal conviction in hockey (including legal precedents) 

b) Canadian Law Workbook stuff (chapter 5)

Tuesday

Check homework!

a) Arrest stuff:  Three ways to charge a person (p 87)me

Make posters and teach:

Arrest: p.88-90

Note: The right to retain and instruct counsel is guaranteed by the Charter of Rights and Freedoms

Rights and Obligations of the Arrested Person pp.90, 93-95

Search: 95-98

Procedures Following Arrest: p 99, 100

The Trial: p. 110, 111, 112

The Trial II p. 112,113,114,115, 116, 117 ME!  Preparation for Mock Trial.

Sentencing the Defendant: 120, 121, 122

Wed

Vocabulary Test

Posters and Presentations of yesterday’s reading.

To do:

Find five cases that have not been tried yet - Write up and predictions.

Essay - I don’t remember what I was talking about with Alekcei….

Components of a trial.

Mock trial.

Establish a weekly 'kangaroo court' where students will charge each other with crimes each week.