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School Subject: Social Studies (Law)

  • Independent Paralegals

    Legacy duties

    • Represent clients in small claims court and in other lower court proceedings, at tribunals and before administrative bodies
    • Advise clients and take legal action on landlord and tenant matters, traffic violations, name changes and other issues within their jurisdictions.

  • Legal Assistants and Paralegals

    Legacy duties

    • Assist lawyers by interviewing clients, witnesses and other related parties, assembling documentary evidence, preparing trial briefs, and arranging for trials
    • Prepare wills, real estate transactions and other legal documents, court reports and affidavits
    • Research records, court files and other legal documents
    • Draft legal correspondence and perform general office and clerical duties.

  • Judges

    Legacy duties

    • Preside over courts of law, interpret and enforce rules of procedure and make rulings regarding the admissibility of evidence
    • Instruct the jury on laws that are applicable to the case
    • Weigh and consider evidence in non-jury trials and decide legal guilt or innocence or degree of liability of the accused or defendant
    • Pass sentence on persons convicted in criminal cases and determine damages or other appropriate remedy in civil cases
    • Grant divorces and divide assets between spouses
    • Determine custody of children between contesting parents and other guardians
    • Enforce court orders for access or support
    • Supervise other judges and court officers.
    • Judges may specialize in particular areas of law such as civil, criminal or family law.

  • Lawyers and Quebec Notaries

    Legacy duties

    • Advise clients of their legal rights and all matters related to law
    • Research legal precedents and gather evidence
    • Plead clients' cases before courts of law, tribunals and boards (lawyers only)
    • Draw up legal documents such as real estate transactions, wills, divorces and contracts, and prepare statements of legal opinions
    • Negotiate settlements of civil disputes (lawyers only)
    • Perform administrative and management functions related to the practice of law
    • May act as mediator, conciliator or arbitrator
    • May act as executor, trustee or guardian in estate and family law matters.
    • Lawyers and Quebec notaries may specialize in specific areas of the law such as criminal law (lawyers only), corporate law, contract law, taxation law, administrative law, international law, commercial law, real estate law, family and estate law, intellectual property law and labour law.