Constitutional
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Title & Subtitle | Abstract | Contributors | Pages | Year | Purchase |
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Advancing Social Rights in Canada |
Canada is at a crossroads. The gap between our national self-image as a country that respects human rights and the reality of socio-economic inequality and exclusion demands a re-engagement with … | Bruce Porter; Martha Jackman | 451 | 2014 | View |
NEW! Anatomy of an ElectionCanada’s 2019 Federal General Election Through the Lens of Political Law |
Elections are the high point of democracy. They provide scheduled opportunities for the people at large to have a participatory voice in their own government. They enable adult citizens to judge … | Gregory Tardi | 838 | 2020 | View |
NEW! Annotated Ontario Mental Health StatutesFifth edition |
Annotated Ontario Mental Health Statutes, 5th edition, is an up-to-date, centralized source of legislation and analysis in the area of mental health for Ontario. Consolidated versions of the … | Caitlin Pakosh; Lora Patton; Richard D. Schneider | 724 | 2022 | View |
Charter of Rights and Freedoms 6/e |
Written by two of Canada’s leading constitutional scholars, no other Canadian book provides such an accessible yet thorough and objective account of the Canadian Charter of Rights and … | Kent Roach; Robert J. Sharpe | 537 | 2017 | View |
Constitutional Labour Rights in CanadaFarm Workers and the Fraser Case |
On 29 April 2011, the Supreme Court of Canada released its much-anticipated decision in Attorney General of Ontario v Fraser, which dealt with the scope of constitutional protection of collective … | Eric Tucker; Fay Faraday; Judy Fudge | 333 | 2012 | View |
Constitutional Law, 5/e |
The fifth edition of Constitutional Law represents a significant update of the fourth edition, published in 2013. During this period, the Supreme Court of Canada has continued to develop the … | Byron Shaw; Padraic Ryan; Patrick J. Monahan | 673 | 2017 | View |
NEW! Criminal LawEighth Edition |
Since the publication of the first edition in 1996, Criminal Law by Kent Roach has become one of the most highly regarded titles in Irwin Law’s Essentials of Canadian Law … | Kent Roach | 691 | 2022 | View |
Cruel ArithmeticInside the Case Against Polygamy |
For thirty years, lawyers, pundits, professors, and politicians had said that section 293 of the Criminal Code of Canada—the criminal prohibition of polygamy—was unconstitutional, a … | Craig Jones | 402 | 2012 | View |
Discrimination StoriesExclusion, Law, and Everyday Life |
Despite growing societal and media attention to problems of discrimination in Canadian society, legal concepts in equality and anti-discrimination law are not widely … | Colleen Sheppard | 224 | 2021 | View |
Freedom of Conscience and Religion |
When the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms was enacted in 1982, the first of its fundamental freedoms seemed less significant and less interesting than many of its other rights. However, … | Richard Moon | 239 | 2014 | View |
Fundamental JusticeSection 7 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms |
Section 7 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms provides that “[e]veryone has the right to life, liberty and security of the person and the right not to be deprived thereof except … | Hamish Stewart | 361 | 2012 | View |
Fundamental Justice 2/eSection 7 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms |
Section 7 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms provides that “[e]veryone has the right to life, liberty and security of the person and the right not to be deprived thereof except … | Hamish Stewart | 441 | 2019 | View |
Public Law at the McLachlin CourtThe First Decade |
Beverley McLachlin was sworn in as the seventeenth Chief Justice of Canada on 7 January 2000. This book focuses on constitutional and administrative law decisions rendered in the first decade of … | Adam M. Dodek; David A. Wright | 447 | 2011 | View |
Quasi-constitutional Laws of Canada |
As the first book dedicated to quasi-constitutional laws in Canada, this work provides a much-needed overview of the elements that unite the various rights-protecting laws that have received this … | John Helis | 330 | 2018 | View |
Religious Institutions and the Law in Canada 4/e |
This fourth revised edition is the leading Canadian legal text on the law relating to religious institutions. Previous editions have been frequently cited in and by all levels of Canadian courts … | M.H. Ogilvie | 511 | 2017 | View |
Rivals for Power: Ottawa and the ProvincesThe contentious history of the Canadian federation |
This book provides a history of Canadian federalism and describes the ongoing push and pull over power between Ottawa and the provinces. Ed Whitcomb offers an analysis of how the strengths and … | Ed Whitcomb | 400 | 2017 | View |