The Supreme Court of Canada and social justice
Subtitle: commitment, retrenchment or retreat
By: general editors, Sanda Rodgers, Sheila McIntyre
Publisher: LexisNexis
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Markham, Ont
Language: eng
Number of pages: 538
ISBN-13: 9780433462729
Subjects: Canada; Canada. Supreme Court; Sociological jurisprudence; Judgments; Canada. Cour suprême; Social justice; Arrêts (Procédure); Justice sociale
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : the Supreme Court of Canada and social justice : commitment, retrenchment, or retreat / Sanda Rodgers and Sheila McIntyre; title: Getting heard : leave to appeal, interveners, and procedural barriers to social justice in the Supreme Court of Canada / Sanda Rodgers; title: Between principle and pragmatism : the decline of principled reasoning in the jurisprudence of the McLachlin court / Graham Mayeda; title: The story in aboriginal law and aboriginal law in the story : a Métis professor's journey / Larry Chartrand; title: The equality jurisprudence of the McLachlin court : back to the 70s / Sheila McIntyre; title: Unequal to the task : "Kapp"ing the substantive potential of Section 15; title: "Terrorism or whatever" : the implications of Alberta v. Hutterian Brethren of Wilson Colony for women's equality and social justice / Jennifer Koshan and Jonnette Watson Hamilton; title: Poverty and social justice at the Supreme Court during the McLachlin years : slipsliding away / Jennie Abell; title: Constitutional castaways : poverty and the McLachlin Court / Martha Jackman; title: Equality and Supreme Court criminal jurisprudence : never the twain shall meet / Elizabeth Sheehy; title: Twenty years later Taylor still has it right : how the Canadian Human Rights Act's hate speech provision continues to contribute to equality / Jane Bailey; title: Human rights statutes as a tool to eliminate and prevent discrimination : reflection on the Supreme Court of Canada's jurisprudence / Karen Schucher; title: International human rights law in the Supreme Court's Charter jurisprudence : commitment, retrenchment, and retreat : in no particular order / John H. Currie; title: Does preserving the environment advance or conflict with social justice and human rights? / Heather McLeod-Kilmurray; title: The pursuit of environmental justice in the McLachlin Court / Nathalie J. Chalifour and Gavin Smith.