The origin of rights

Type
Book
Authors
ISBN 10
0459387502 
ISBN 13
9780459387501 
LCCN
K3240.4.S34 
DDC
342.085 
Category
Canadian Legal History  [ Browse Items ]
Publication Year
1986 
Publisher
Carswell, Canada 
Pages
175 
Description
Contents:
Preface -- Chapter 1: The quest for a Charter of Rights and Freedoms -- Parliament struggles for supremacy -- A Bill of Rights in born -- The British North America -- Canada chooses a Charter -- Chapter 2: Freedom of conscience and religion -- Religious freedom in America -- Freedom of religion under the Canadian Charter -- Chapter 3: Freedom of thought, belief, opinion and expression -- The struggle in England -- Freedom of expression in the thirteen colonies -- Canada before the Charter -- Freedom of expression under the Charter -- Chapter 4: Freedom of the press and other media of communication -- The colonies rebel against the common law -- Sedition in America -- Liberty of the press in Canada -- Chapter 5: Freedom from arbitrary detention or imprisonment -- Apprehended insurrection in Canada -- The October Crisis -- Arbitrary detention and the Charter -- Chapter 6: Freedom from unreasonable search and seizure -- The writs are denounced in the colonies -- Development of the Fourth Amendment -- Search and seizure since the Charter -- Chapter 7: The right to habeas corpus -- The writ of habeas corpus -- Development of the writ -- Habeas corpus in Canada -- Chapter 8: The right to remain silent -- Trial by jury in the seventeenth century -- Taking the Fifth in America -- The Canadian rule -- Critics of silence -- Chapter 9: Trial by jury -- How trial by jury began -- Trial by jury in America -- Trial by jury in Canada -- The charter enshrines trial by jury -- Chapter 10: Right to counsel -- Right to counsel at common law -- Right to counsel in America -- Gideon's re-trial -- When does right to counsel begin -- Right to counsel in Canada -- Chapter 11: Remedying the breach -- How the exclusionary rule developed in the United States -- The Charter creates an exclusionary rule in Canada. 
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