Day 4 - The Star Chamber and Intro to Law

The synopsis of the film is on the previous blog.

Please consider these

Please write a two paragraph reflection on this film and how it relates to justice being served versus the written law and how we enforce it.  In your work please refer to specifics in the film including, but not limited to:

• The roles of judges. E.g. the older judge, Caulfield, said:  "What happened to the law?  We're the law.  We let it happen!").  

• E.g. 2 - the younger judge, Hardin, said, "My responsibility is to give a fair trial according to the law."

• What are the implications / outcomes of always ensuring a fair trial, according to the law, for those accused of serious crimes and for their victims?

• Your ideas of the differences between "right" and "wrong" and who decides on what is right or wrong. The young judge, Hardin, said, "There is no right and wrong.  There’s only the Law!"

• Reflections on the differences and similarities between the Law and Justice. The older judge said, “Someone has hijacked justice and hidden it in the Law!”

• Your opinion on whether or not you think we should have a Star Chamber in our legal system today in Canada to finish off the cases in which guilty people are set free because of “loopholes” in the law? Exactly what would we gain or lose with a made in Canada Star Chamber?

When your work is done, please log into Turnitin Originality Checker to submit your work.  You'll have to create your own account.  Then go to this class, Law CLU Intro to  Canadian Law and use the dropbox for this Star Chamber assignment to upload your work - SHARE your Google Doc link and then within Turn It In - Submit, make sure the "Cut and Paste" option is changed to "Single File Upload" (you'll see the little arrow to change it) and then Upload from Google, the last option in the list at the bottom.  The course is ID # 8590865 and the password is  " acton "  .