Sentences with phrase «equality rights»

Control of Aboriginal people through definitions of Aboriginality, and through associated policies, historically amounted to a denial of the citizenship or equality rights of Indigenous people in Australia.

Our lawsuit claims that the new law violates sections 6 (mobility rights), 7 (protection of life, liberty and security of the person), 11 (h) and (i)(procedural protections for individuals who have been charged with an offence), 12 (protection from cruel and unusual treatment or punishment) and 15 (equality rights) of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, and are not justifiable in a free and democratic society.

Section 33 allows Parliament and provincial legislatures to immunize legislation from judicial review and invalidation under sections 2 and 7 to 15 of the Charter — provisions protecting, among other things, the freedoms of religion and expression, the due process rights of the accused in criminal cases, and most equality rights.

7 (right to life, liberty and security of the person) and 15 (equality rights) of the Charter.

However, s. 15 equality rights are limited to grounds of discrimination analogous to the grounds enumerated in s. 15 (1).

Based on what I observed, I am confident that we could see an equality rights victory.

Justice Abella stated flatly that LGBTQ2 students do have equality rights, so the indication was that counsel should not waste time diminishing that.

The courts have traditionally attempted as much as possible to balance competing rights, and in this case it should be possible to do so without giving «equality rights» the trump card.

For example, if statutes prevented them from ruling in favour some case where marriage equality rights would be upheld, but they did not wish to set that precedent.

210 to 213) infringe s. 2 (d) freedom of association rights because these provisions prevent prostitutes from joining together to increase their personal safety; s. 7 security of the person rights due to the possibility of arrest and imprisonment and because the provisions prevent prostitutes from taking steps to improve the health and safety conditions of their work; s. 15 equality rights because the provisions discriminate against members of a disadvantaged group; and s. 2 (b) freedom of expression rights by making illegal communication which could serve to increase safety and security.

Does s. 1 permit some provinces to reasonably restrict religious freedom in pursuit of protection of equality rights, while others restrict equality to protect religious freedom?

Ishaq challenged the policy on a number of grounds, including freedom of religion and equality rights under the Charter.

The Program provides funding to help minority, women's and other disadvantaged groups so they can launch «test court cases» challenging laws that may violate equality rights under the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.

We in Canada find that the freedom to believe any old religous claptrap to be a Charter value equal in weight to equality rights.

s. 15 would not even exist without the robust discussions around the delineations of equality rights found in cases like Andrews, Egan, Vriend, M v H, Miron, Corbiere, and Lavoie.

This site is for advocates, academics and practitioners involved in equality rights, to monitor and advance the development of equality law in Canada.

The program provided funding for court cases of national significance that had the potential to advance constitutional language or equality rights.

However, in the medium term, it is likely that the government would take a more nuanced approach — for example, by limiting the application of statutory holiday pay entitlement or making more employment / equality rights subject to qualifying service.

Law argued that the provisions of the Canada Pension Plan that limited access to survivor's benefits on the basis of age were a violation of her equality rights under Section 15 (1) of the Charter.

West Coast LEAF has been working since 1985 to end discrimination against women through equality rights litigation, law reform, and public legal education.

But does Bill C - 16 go far enough in undoing the Harper government's damage to equality rights in Canada?

She has a strong interest in social justice and constitutional law, including the protection of freedom of religion and equality rights.

[269] In the recent case of Trinity Western University v. College of Teachers (British Columbia)(106), the Court dealt with the potential conflict between religious freedoms and equality rights.

A national non profit women's organization which promotes the equality rights of women through legal education, research and law reform advocacy.

«Mary Cornish has devoted her career to advancing equality rights.

Here it is limiting X's freedom in the interest of X's equality rights.

Perhaps these cases aren't about women's rights, but they are about how equality rights should be interpreted and extended.

The difference between those cases and here is that there it was limiting X's freedom in the interest of Y's equality rights.

that it's about «equality rights»), then you've kind of proven Professor Froc's point.

Sacha has also acted for clients respecting addressing human rights issues, such as equality rights.

The mere recognition of the equality rights of one group can not, in itself, constitute a violation of the rights of another.

In more recent years, we have represented clients in every major case in which the Supreme Court of Canada has dealt with the Charter equality rights of gay men and lesbians including, among others, Egan v. Canada, Vriend v. Alberta, M. v. H., and Little Sisters Book & Art Emporium v. Canada (Minister of Justice).

Egan and Nesbit commenced litigation, arguing that the opposite sex requirement violated their equality rights under the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.

Andrews v. Law Society of British Columbia was the first equality rights case in which the Supreme Court of Canada considered s. 15 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.

We work on equality rights in relation to mental health, disability, gender, youth, immigration, refugees, race, poverty, and LGBTQ rights.

Some of our other equality rights cases include Jane Doe v. Metropolitan Toronto (Municipality) Commissioners of Police, Nova Scotia Workers» Compensation Board v. Martin and Lovelace v. Ontario.

Our lawyers have also been at the forefront of many equality rights cases, including the first Supreme Court of Canada decision to deal with the Charter's equality rights provision, Andrews v. Law Society of British Columbia.

The Supreme Court of Canada has held that sexual orientation is an analogous ground of discrimination under the equality rights provision of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.

After years of this arbitrary and discriminatory treatment, Little Sisters and the B.C. Civil Liberties Association challenged the constitutionality of certain provisions of the Customs Act on the basis that they violated Little Sisters» freedom of expression and equality rights under the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.

Our labour lawyers were among the first to use the Charter to attempt to advance the equality rights of gay and lesbian employees in grievance arbitration cases, such as Carleton University and C.U.P.E., Local 2424.

He challenged the citizenship requirement on the basis that it violated his equality rights under s. 15 of the Charter.

This case provides an important opportunity to explore how equality rights should be balanced against religious freedom.

Carrying more legal weight as a constitutional document than its predecessor, the Charter provides the guaranteed protection of important rights such as freedom of conscience, religion, expression, and association; the democratic right to vote; mobility rights to enter and leave Canada as well as reside anywhere within Canada; legal rights in criminal matters; equality rights against discrimination; and language rights.

These have included freedom of expression, access to information, application of provincial legislation to federally regulated companies, discrimination and equality rights, tax, and aboriginal rights.

West Coast LEAF's mission is to achieve equality by changing historic patterns of discrimination against women through BC - based equality rights litigation, law reform and public legal education.

Michelle Josef, who had already started the process at CAMH leading to the surgery, launched an application alleging that the defunding of the surgery was unconstitutional because it exceeded the regulatory power conferred upon Cabinet by the Health Insurance Act, was enacted in bad faith and infringed the equality rights guaranteed by s. 15 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms and was not a reasonable limit that could be justified under s. 1 of the Charter.

Among other speakers is the Hon. Roy McMurtry, a key drafter of the Charter, who will share with the audience a «behind the scenes» look at the crafting of the Charter and the debate, if any, at the time with respect to the enactment of the equality rights section.

Section 15 (1) of the Charter guarantees Canadians «equality rights.»

It was drafted to reinforce the understanding that women have an inherent right of control over their own bodily integrity and that human dignity and equality rights demand nothing less» (at para. 12).

The Federal Court of Appeal has struck down the IRPA provision that refuses applicants from DCOs a right of appeal on the basis that it violates their equality rights under section 15 of the Charter.