Sentences with phrase «recent majority judgment»

In Canada, the recent majority judgment in Quebec (Attorney General) v. A., 2013 SCC 5, more commonly known as Eric v. Lola, is also an instance of Supreme Court justices deferring to the Quebec legislature's choice to draw a distinction between treatment of common law and married spouses.

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Neither does the majority judgment mention the history of violence between J.A. and K.D.. Although the majority's focus was properly on the law of consent in light of the issue it had to decide, it missed an important opportunity to situate this issue within the broader context of domestic violence and marital rape (for a recent study on marital rape, see my report for the Equality Effect here).