Sentences with phrase «intervener in the case»

Currently, there are 29 groups listed as interveners in the case between the Law Society of Upper Canada and Trinity Western University, including LGBTQ groups who disagree with the school's policies and say they are discriminatory.

The questions were really probing around the salient issues,» said John Suttles, a lawyer for the Southern Environmental Law Center who represented the American Lung Association as an environmental intervener in the case.

Likewise, it has been argued on occasion that the refusal to allow interveners in some cases has been detrimental.

The BCCLA is in intervener in the case and will make oral submissions urging the Court to apply a stringent evidentiary standard when considering limits on individuals» fundamental rights.

Acting as intervener in this case, CARL argued that Canada's approach to exclusion requires a fair and principled approach which aligns exclusion with established principles of international criminal law, while simultaneously safeguarding the basic protection objectives of the Refugee Convention.

John Ciampoli — an attorney representing the state Republican Party, an intervener in the case that is against closing the LLC loophole — suggested that if the loophole were closed by the judiciary, every legislator who failed to pass a bill could run to the court seeking relief.

In the end, U of A law students Sam Harrison and Pippa Feinstein, who represented the Centre for Indigenous Environmental Resources (an intervener in the case), came out on top.

Jonathan Rudin is the program director and founder of Aboriginal Legal Services of Toronto, which was an intervener in the case.

The CCLA appeared before the Supreme Court of Canada as an intervener in the case of Mouvement laïque québécois, et al. v. City of Saguenay, et al..

Joanna Birenbaum, director of litigation for the Women's Legal Education and Action Fund, an intervener in the case, says if the SCC orders N.S. to remove her niqab, it could have far - reaching implications for sexual assault victims.

Rob De Luca, staff lawyer for the Canadian Civil Liberties Association, an intervener in the case, suggests that privacy concerns remain from this decision.

Joanna Birenbaum, the legal director of the Women's Legal Education and Action Fund, an intervener in the case, said her group was pleased with the result after noticing a recent trend of the Crown charging women with murder rather than infanticide.

Nathalie Des Rosiers, general counsel of the Canadian Civil Liberties Association, which was an intervener in the case, says the ruling applied the test for freedom of religion in Canada in a slightly different way.

Lawyer Frank Addario, who represented the Criminal Lawyers Association, another intervener in the case, said that in his experience, lawyers have not necessarily become ruder.

The Canadian Association of Refugee Lawyers, jointly with the Canadian Council of Refugees, was an intervener in the case and made written submissions to the court.

The Court adopted this expansive definition based on the Commission's 1996 policy, and the Commission played a role as intervener in that case.

A legal team from the Ontario Legal Clinics» Workers» Compensation Network represented ONIWG and obtained standing as an intervener in the cases of Martin and Laseur from Nova Scotia.

As an intervener in the case, West Coast LEAF will argue that human rights law must recognize and remedy sexual harassment and other forms of discrimination as expressions of power that do not necessarily map neatly onto workplace hierarchies.

The Supreme Court of Canada has dismissed the appeal of a Québec student who had brought a contempt charge against a spokesperson over student protests in that province in 2012; but the most interesting aspect of the case was the split in the court over the decision, says a lawyer who represented one of the interveners in the case.

For example, in 2001, The Advocates» Society (which is an intervener in this case) published The Principles of Civility for Advocates, which was revised and reissued in 2009.

«What I can say to you is that I find it very, very interesting that the court broke on a 5 / 3/1, and that is really, really rare,» says Ranjan K. Agarwal, a partner at Bennett Jones in Toronto who represented an intervener in the case, the Alberta Public Interest Research Group.

The Supreme Court of Canada's decision today in the Réjean Hinse case, although disappointing, does include «a slight progression of the law in favour of the wrongly convicted,» says a lawyer for the Association in Defence of the Wrongly Convicted, an intervener in the case.

Another intervener in the case was the Canadian Civil Liberties Association, represented by Grey, Casgrain s.e.n.c in Montréal.

The B.C. Civil Liberties Association acted as interveners in the case, and made submissions that the CDSA was contrary to the principles of fundamental justice in its application to Insite.

«We applaud the CJC majority report to the minister that properly confirms that the question here was not whether the judge was apologetic, but rather whether the conduct under review is of such a nature that a reasonable person would lose confidence in the judiciary,» says Kim Stanton, legal director at the Women's Legal Education and Action Fund, which was an intervener in the case.

The Ontario government will participate in the appeal as an intervener in the case.