write Judicial Decision about Defendant’s Statement

This assignment requires you to pretend that you are a judge and to write your decision. Your decision should have a similar format and tone as the various decisions you have read for this class. Please do not consult any sources other than those referred to in this document and those that we have covered in class. All of the information you need to write your decision can be found in the course material and the Defendant’s Statement below (which sets out the defendant’s arguments).

2. You should not use citations for the basic legal principles I set out in the lectures/slides or the Defendant’s Statement, as judges do not cite these documents. It is sufficient to say, for example, “as the Defendant argued…” If you are citing a case or law, please follow the guide to legal citation that I have posted online. Your citations should appear as endnotes. Please review the guide to legal citation that follows this assignment. This guide is a simplified version of the Canadian Uniform Guide to Legal Citation. Because this is a complex method of citation that you are unfamiliar with, you are not expected to consult the official guide or to have perfect citations. However, you should do your best to conform your citations to the samples I have provided. You will not lose marks for your citations unless there are obvious errors that clearly could have been avoided had you consulted the citation guide, there are missing citations, or the citations contain incorrect or missing information (i.e. you leave out the author’s name, the title of the journal article is incorrect, etc.).