In R v Strauss, the Ontario Court of Appeal quashed multiple convictions for which the appellant had been sentenced to 11 years in prison. The Court of Appeal differed sharply with the Superior Court’s decision to…
On Thursday, July 27, Justice Wagner of the Supreme Court of Canada granted intervener status to nine out of twenty-six potential interveners in the case of Trinity Western University v. Law Society of Upper Canada…
The High Court in London, England, has given Liberty, a U.K. civil liberties and human rights organization, permission to challenge parts of the UK’s Investigatory Powers Act. The 2016 law, which Liberty has called an “authoritarian…
In two decisions released today, the Supreme Court of Canada has outlined precisely when the Crown’s duty to consult with First Nations is triggered. The first decision, Clyde River (Hamlet) v. Petroleum Geo-Services Inc., came in…
The Quebec Human Rights Tribunal has found that a Montreal-area mechanic dismissed an employee due to the cost of his medication and that the dismissal constituted discrimination. At issue was whether the employee, MC, was…
Winston Blackmore and James Oler, former leaders of the religious community Bountiful in southeastern BC, have been convicted of polygamy. Both are members of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, a sect…
Earlier this month it was revealed that the Canadian government was settling with Omar Khadr, the Canadian citizen who had spent eight years in detention at a US naval base in Cuba known as Guantanamo…
Trinity Western University is the first party to file its factum in its appeal to the Supreme Court of Canada in the case of Trinity Western University v. Law Society of Upper Canada. As has…
With the help of the Commission des droits de la personne et des droits de la jeunesse, a Montreal man has prevailed over his former employer at the Human Rights Tribunal of Quebec. Richard Zilberg…
In a historic decision, the BC Court of Appeal has agreed to hear the appeal of Phillip Tallio, the man who has maintained his innocence throughout his 34 years in prison. If found innocent, his…
