Civil Rights
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From ![]() Equality |
Chapter 6 deals with the Charter’s “equality rights,” perhaps the most challenging section of the document. Beginning in 1989, the Supreme Court set out a test for the … | Ian Greene | 64 | 2014 | $6.40 Add |
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From ![]() Equality |
Review of how the Supreme Court has provided a general framework for analyzing equality rights under the Charter, and how the courts have dealt with particular types of discrimination, such as … | Kent Roach; Robert J. Sharpe | 53 | 2017 | $5.30 Add |
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From ![]() Evidence |
This chapter discusses providing evidence and testimony under oath. | M.H. Ogilvie | 10 | 2017 | $1.00 Add |
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From ![]() Fairness and the Freedom of ReligionDiversity and Pluralism in the Public Sphere From: Balancing Competing Human Rights Claims in a Diverse Society |
Examination of pluralism and secularism against the background of diversity, freedom, tolerance, and the re-understanding of the public sphere. | Iain Benson | 36 | 2012 | $3.60 Add |
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From ![]() Family Law |
This chapter discusses religious institutions in Canada as they relate to family law, including marriage and divorce, custody and access, personal taxation exemptions, and homosexuality. | M.H. Ogilvie | 19 | 2017 | $1.90 Add |
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From ![]() First Stirrings in OttawaFrom: Gay Marriage |
Examines the government’s appeal of the Ontario decision about redefining marriage, examines the supporters, opposers and arguments made. | Benjamin Waterhouse; Louisa Blair; Robert Chodos; Sylvain Larocque | 18 | 2006 | $1.80 Add |
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From ![]() NEW! In Your FaceLegislative Prohibitions of the Niqab From: In Your Face |
This chapter begins with a brief global survey of legal proscriptions of Muslim women’s face veils, while Part II closely examines Canadian attempts to prohibit face veiling through law and … | Natasha Bakht | 39 | 2020 | $3.90 Add |
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From ![]() NEW! What’s in a FaceDemeanor Evidence and Niqab-Wearing Women in Courtrooms From: In Your Face |
This chapter analyzes opposition to the niqab in courtroom settings. | Natasha Bakht | 35 | 2020 | $3.50 Add |
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From ![]() NEW! Piercing the Veil of IgnoranceNiqab-Wearing Women and the Adjudication of Sexual Assault From: In Your Face |
Part I of this chapter addresses women’s experiences with the judicial system in the context of sexual assault. Part II closely examines a Canadian case in which a niqab-wearing sexual … | Natasha Bakht | 36 | 2020 | $3.60 Add |
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From ![]() NEW! Niqab-Wearing Women’s Resistance in the Face of Oppressive Governmental Tactics and Popular BeliefsFrom: In Your Face |
In this chapter, Bahkt discusses how niqab-wearing women and their allies deploy multiple strategies to subvert dominant perceptions of who niqab-women are and what they stand for. | Natasha Bakht | 30 | 2020 | $3.00 Add |
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From ![]() Ford v. Quebec (Attorney General), 1988 |
The Supreme Court of Canada struck down a Quebec law requiring public signs and posters and commercial advertising to be in French only, and allowing only the French version of a firm name to be used. | Janet Hieber; Peter Russell; Rainer Knopff; Tom Bateman | 19 | 2017 | $1.90 Add |
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From ![]() R. v. Butler, 1992 |
The Supreme Court of Canada ruled that while the obscenity provisions of the Criminal Code infringed the right to freedom of expression, they were justified as a reasonable limit under the … | Janet Hieber; Peter Russell; Rainer Knopff; Tom Bateman | 15 | 2017 | $1.50 Add |
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From ![]() Foreword by Hon. Martin Cauchon and Introduction by authorFrom: Gay Marriage |
From the decriminalization of homosexuality, the charter of rights and freedoms, same-sex couple adoption and the fight for marriage eqality this briefly outlines the underlying history of the … | Benjamin Waterhouse; Louisa Blair; Robert Chodos; Sylvain Larocque | 7 | 2006 | $0.70 Add |
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From ![]() Four Dimensions of Judicial ActivismFrom: Supreme Court on Trial |
Discussion of the meaning of judicial activism by exploring popular understandings of the phrase, and the differences between American and non-American approaches to it. | Kent Roach | 17 | 2016 | $1.70 Add |
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From ![]() Framing Competing Human Rights ClaimsThe Promise of Shared Social Citizenship From: Balancing Competing Human Rights Claims in a Diverse Society |
Argument that development of social policy for addressing competing human rights claims should be built on recognition that persons pressing competing human rights claims do so in the context of … | Lesley Jacobs; Lorne Foster | 15 | 2012 | $1.50 Add |
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From ![]() Freedom of Association |
Analysis of how courts have interpreted freedom of association, particularly in relation to collective bargaining and the right not to associate. | Kent Roach; Robert J. Sharpe | 14 | 2017 | $1.40 Add |












