Sentences with phrase «equality rights case»

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.

The firm has represented the Canadian Labour Congress in numerous Supreme Court of Canada freedom of association and equality rights cases and has also worked with international organizations seeking to protect workers» rights.

Acted on several matters before the Supreme Court of Canada, including one of the country's leading equality rights cases (R v Kapp) and the leading case in Canada on environmental claims within the context of insolvency proceedings (Re AbitibiBowater)

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.

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.

Not exact matches

The liberal elite who occupy the positions of influence in deciding cases under human rights or equality laws tend to use them as a tool to achieve the results that conform to the fashionable values they have absorbed or which prevail in the social environments in which they live, are educated and work.

If you mean she dehumanizes men, domineers and abuses the men in her life, and doesn't believe in equality when it comes to child custody cases — unfortunately you may still be right.

While new fathers as well as new mothers have a «right to ask for flexible working» (i.e. their employers have to come up with a very good «business case» to deny them this), this is where equality ends.

The President of the European Humanist Federation (EHF), David Pollock, said: «The European Court of Human Rights is an essential bastion of equality and non-discrimination but has shown signs of being politically intimidated — for example in the case about the Italian law compelling schools to display crucifixes.

The British Humanist Association (BHA) has applauded the EcHR for «applying the right principles» to the cases — principles of equality and human rights, and for dismissing three of the cases of alleged discrimination.

The initiative, which Ms Kelly claimed could boost the UK economy by as much as # 23 billion per year, will see unions working with «equality representatives» to increase flexible working rights and resolve discrimination cases.

The Welsh secretary previously argued its «whites - only» membership policy was currently being changed following an aborted court case against it by the Equalities and Human Rights Commission (ECHR), but that while it was not reformed, it remained an illegal group.

The outcome of this case should spur Nigerians to always insist on the rule of law, no matter the short term inconveniences, as it plays a crucial role in ensuring that political rights and civil liberties are safe and that the equality and dignity of all citizens are not at risk.»

This week, The Wall Street Journal published an op - ed by Theodore J. Boutrous, Jr. and Joshua S. Lipshutz, two lead members of the legal team behind Vergara v. California and the new federal education equality lawsuit, Martinez v. Malloy, in which the attorneys make the case for a constitutional right to education and federal legal protections for disadvantaged students.

«Two years ago, when I wanted to give a speech outlining the case for marriage equality in New York, I came right here to this stage at The Cooper Union, because I believe that marriage equality is the civil rights issue of our time.

(2) The judicial dicta in the cases deciding the ambit and scope of the status of EU citizenship and rights contained therein has established that the telos of the positive law is to establish a fundamental and autonomous status of equality for all Member State nationals which guarantees a set of political and economic rights implemented via secondary legislation;

In case you have forgotten, after years of study, the law society mandated that all licensees make a commitment to some simple principles: not to discriminate, abide by workplace policies, promote equality and observe human rights legislation.

This was a very significant case for women's equality rights as it gave LEAF and its coalition partners an opportunity to elaborate on the key human rights concepts of adverse - effect discrimination and the duty to accommodate, as well as to argue against the idea of «reverse discrimination».

But on the constitutional issue of balancing the allegedly competing considerations of religious liberty and equality rights, the Court gets it quite right when it concludes that «[t] his case demonstrates that a well - intentioned majority acting in the name of tolerance and liberalism, can, if unchecked, impose its views on the minority in a manner that is in itself intolerant and illiberal.»

He is frequently instructed by local authorities, housing associations and tenants on cases concerning human rights and equality issues.

«Today's decision acknowledges that there is a need to balance freedom of religion and equality rights in this case.

Four issues had been identified by the parties: (i) whether the Court of Appeal had correctly held that the 2009 and 2010 care plan reviews were to be read as including a reassessment of the claimant's community care needs; (ii) whether the authority's decision to provide pads interfered with the claimant's Art 8 rights and, if so, whether such an interference was justified and proportionate; (iii) whether the authority had been operating any relevant policy or practice for the purposes of s 21E (1) of the Disability Discrimination Act 1995 (DDA 1995) and, if so, whether that policy was justified as a proportionate means of achieving a legitimate aim, namely the equitable allocation of limited care resources; and (iv) whether the authority had failed to have due regard to the needs specified in s 49A of DDA 1995 (the general disability equality duty) when carrying out their functions in the instant case.

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

8 In other words, while the decision was unquestionably a victory for female equality at the time, it was, at its heart, a case about statutory interpretation, not constitutional rights.

Should this be the case, the domestic court needs to examine then if the permanent deferral is compatible with fundamental rights protected by the EU Charter and in particular with the equality principle (para. 45).

The case engages fundamental issues of Constitutional and human rights and administrative law — including the delineation of equality rights, religious freedoms, and the LSUC's jurisdiction as an administrative decision - maker.

I am hoping that the court «s role in this case will strike at the very existence of an absolute immunity under two guiding principles: equality under the law (especially when the alleged wrong has been committed by a person who should be held to the highest standards of conduct in exercising a public trust; and any infringement of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms constitutes «improper purpose» aimed at gaining a private collateral advantage.

Has acted in several major cases where fundamental freedoms were at stake, notably freedom of conscience and religion, freedom of expression, freedom of association and equality rights.

This particular case involves a conflict between two Charter rights: (1) the right to freedom of religion and (2) the right to equality.

The lawyers of MMC have significant experience in Charter litigation, particularly in cases involving progressive equality rights.

Since the spring of 2009, the CCD Human Rights Committee has been involved in four very important cases involving the interpretation of equality and persons with disabilities.

The case involves equality and freedom of religion — both important human rights issues.

CCD / CACL agree with McLaughlin J. (as she then was) when she stated,»... I am of the view that this is not at base a case about discrimination under s. 15 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedom, and that to treat it as such may deflect the equality jurisprudence from the true focus of s. 15....

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

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.

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).

The difference between those cases and here is that there it was limiting X's freedom in the interest of Y'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 display, which is free for the public, contains medals and programmes from the 1908 and 1948 London Olympics and examples of legal cases highlighting the professionalisation of sport, the dangers of commercialisation, balancing the rights of players, clubs and fans, and supporting equality and diversity.

US v. Windsor (the DOMA case) is about Congress's power over marriage and about fundamental rights and about equality and about the proper role of the judiciary and about methods of constitutional interpretation.

[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.

Democratic theories of majority rule and equality before the law often give insufficient regard to minority rights, and this inherent tension has found its way into Aboriginal cases.

Chemerinsky argued that taking another important civil rights case soon after Brown would have affirmed the decision's force that the Equal Protection clause was not about formal equality, but about anti-subordination.

The 1960 Canadian Bill of Rights affirmed the right to equality before the law and, in the Drybones case, the Supreme Court of Canada held that an Aboriginal person had been unfairly discriminated against on the basis of race by being convicted under an Indian Act provision that made it an offence for an Aboriginal person to be intoxicated off - reserve.

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

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 Frerights under the Canadian Charter of Rights and FreRights and Freedoms.

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.

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.

The EHRC has power to participate in human rights cases before the courts and to seek judicial review of decisions raising human rights issues, but the legacy of history will encourage the new commissioners to keep equality as the dominant focus of its activity.