The Constitution also says what laws the provinces or states can write and what laws the national or federal Canadian government can write. Lawyers and Judges Lawyers are people who have gone to university and have studied laws and the legal system. Before you can go out and represent others before judges or give legal advice, as lawyers do, you really have to know most of the laws. And there are many laws. Some very famous people are lawyers such as the singer Julio Iglesias, television talk-show host Geraldo Rivera and British comedian John Cleese of Monty Python fame.
Judges have to be lawyers because they apply the rules of law to peoples' stories.
It is not written in complicated lawyer-English so you should be able to understand things. And remember, there is a Timetable of World Legal History and a legal dictionary to help you learn more about the law. Ever Said in Court pages. All rights reserved under penalty of whatever I can get in the cheapest court, with the meanest judge, in your jurisdiction. The law can change very quickly and without warning.