The Canadian Foundation for Children, Youth & the Law, a childrens» rights organization, brought an action for
declaratory relief striking down Section 43 of the Criminal Code, the legislation which decriminalizes the spanking of children for the purpose of corrective discipline.
Not exact matches
The defendant applied to have aspects of the
relief sought
struck out on the ground that the claimant was not entitled to the breadth of injunctive and
declaratory relief pleaded.
The judge found that the injunctive and
declaratory relief sought by the claimant was too wide and
struck out the parts of the claims for
relief which fell outside the scope of what was permissible on a collective challenge.