论民族因素对加拿大法律制度和司法体制的影响

The Ethnic Impacts on Canadian Legal and Judiciary Systems

英国独占加拿大之后,当地法裔族群为保持本族群的特性,强烈要求保留其传统的法律制度,并为此展开了长期的斗争。英国殖民当局及后来的加拿大联邦政府基于各种原因与法裔族群妥协,从而使加拿大法律体系具有了以英美法系为主交织大陆法系的两大法系长期共存的特色。这种由民族因素而形成的特色主要体现在私法和民事诉讼法以及与之相适应的司法体制方面。

After Britain＇s occupation of Canada, the local ethnic French strongly urged to maintain their own legal and judiciary systems and launched a long-term struggle against the colonial authority. As the result of the compromises made between the above two parties and later between ethnic French and Canadian federal government, Canadian legal and judiciary systems have the entwinement of Common Law System and Civil Law System, which mainly exhibited in private and civil procedure laws and corresponding judiciary systems.