... of the Charter and the Quebec Charter of Human Rights and Freedoms. ¹² The claims include that Canada disproportionately generates about 1.6% of the world’s greenhouse gasses (‘GHG’), has never established adequate GHG emission reduction targets necessary to curb global warming and protect the life...

...Sarah Trotter The emergence of the principle of ‘living together’, as a possible justification for limitations on the rights to freedom of religion and to respect for private life within the jurisprudence of the ECtHR, can be traced to the submissions of the French Government in S.A.S. v...

... ‘living together’ criminal law bans protection of the rights and freedoms of others manifestation of religion right to private life right to identity Article 8 European Convention on Human Rights Article 9 European Convention on Human Rights S.A.S. v France Rights to religious and other...

... European Union Charter of Fundamental Rights and Freedoms Fair trial rights are of fundamental importance to democratic societies: they underpin the rule of law, protecting the individual against arbitrary rule even in the most exigent of circumstances. The rights of the defence are set out in skeleton...

..., Indigenous Peoples and the Canadian Constitution, Federalism, Rights and Freedoms, and Constitutional Theory. Readers of this Handbook will discover some of the distinctive features of the Canadian Constitution: for example, the importance of Indigenous peoples and legal systems, the long-standing presence...

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... to theory and defends some of his key insights, using the Override Clause in Canada's Charter of Rights and Freedoms as a way of illustrating the moral importance of differences in political culture. But it also argues that Walzer's assertion that there is a tight link between moral community and political...

...This chapter picks up the story where the previous chapter left off, showing how the Supreme Court of Canada initially made a show of rejecting the application of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms to private law relationships in Dolphin Delivery. But at the same time, the Court...

... the celebration of this linguistic diversity has increasingly manifested itself throughout various European Treaties, the EU Charter of Rights and Freedoms, the Council, the Commission, and even in the Parliament. European identity language Charter of Fundamental Rights of the EU Commission Council of the EU...

... Brotherhood National Dialogue Quartet al Sisi Gen Abdel Fattah media the Turkey Israel Political change MENA countries Arab Spring and Post-Arab Spring Civil society Social movements Associations Political rights and freedoms Since 2011 Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region countries have...

...This chapter examines the judicial approach to the interpretation of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. Attention is paid to the general interpretive techniques developed by the courts to determine both the content of Charter rights and their limitations...

...After almost 25 years of jurisprudence under the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, many of the fears expressed by critics of the Charter have come to pass—judicial review under the Charter of Rights and Freedoms operates as an institutional...

... Justice, Supreme Court of Canada (2008–2016); now senior counsel with Borden Ladner Gervais LLP in Ottawa and Toronto. Law Clerk, Supreme Court of Canada. More than thirty years have passed since the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms came into effect, and nearly twenty-five years since...

...This chapter discusses the Canadian charter, the use of Sunday, charter values or Christian principles, teaching traditional morality, and same-sex marriage. The first section discusses Canada's Charter of Rights and Freedoms and its impact on the treatment of religion in public life. The aim...

... that an exploration of the actual sharing of power under modern human rights instruments is instructive in allaying this anti-democratic critique. It employs international human rights instruments, as well as the British Human Rights Act and the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms to ground the theoretical...

... laws so as to constrain the exclusive rights of IP owners. Beginning from the position that IP rights ought to ‘serve human values’, the chapter proceeds by considering whether, and to what extent, the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms (Canadian Charter) can produce counter-norms to those...

... with comparing balancing of fundamental rights and freedoms in the Charter with balancing in the GDPR. Indeed, it re-emphasizes how the GDPR as a whole, essentially constitutes a framework for fair balancing of rights, freedoms, and interests in the context of personal data processing. The chapter then lays out...

... in Darkness BC’s Mental Health Act Detention System’ Adelson Naomi mental capacity laws Smye Victoria Adult Guardianship Act 1996 AGA A H v Fraser Health Authority Fraser Health Authority Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms law reform Perlin Michael Sinclair Murray therapeutic jurisprudence...

... 1982 Charter of Rights and Freedoms). It discusses the ambivalent relationship Native peoples have had with respect to the language of individual rights, consent, and sexual equality, and reflects on the difficulties this presents for protecting Native women. The chapter also...