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Courts Constraining Parliament? Restraint and De Minimis
From: Sovereignty, Restraint, and Guidance
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Chapter 4 explains the interpretive presumption that, in devising criminal offences, Parliament did not intend to target courses of action that are widely believed to be morally permissible or, at any rate, not sufficiently wrongful as to warrant condemnation.
Contributors
Michael Plaxton
Michael Plaxton is a professor of law at the University of Saskatchewan. He teaches and writes about criminal law, evidence, philosophy of law, statutory interpretation, and constitutional theory. He is the author of Implied Consent & Sexual Assault: Intimate Relationships, Autonomy, and Voice (McGill-Queen’s, 2015).
