Public interest litigation in Canada
By: general editors, Cheryl Milne (LL.B., M.S.W.), Kent Roach (B.A., LL.B., LL.M)
Publisher: LexisNexis Canada
Published: 2019
Place of publication: Toronto, Ontario
Language: eng
Number of pages: 399
ISBN-13: 9780433499008
Copyright date: 2019
Subjects: Citizen suits (Civil procedure); Congresses; Public interest law
Description: "This book is about interventions in Charter litigation and public interest litigation brought by lawyers and legal advocacy organizations."--
Notes: Includes table of cases.

Based on papers presented at a conference on public interest litigation held March 2, 2018 at the David Asper Centre for Constitutional Rights, University of Toronto.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Part 1.; title: Overarching themes and strategies in public interest litigation in Canada --; title: Pragmatic assorted strategies : how Canadian cause lawyers contribute to social change  -- Basil S. Alexander; title: Winning the right to housing : critical reflections on a holistic approach to public interest litigation  -- Fay Faraday, Tracy Heffernan, and Helen Luu; title: Trauma-informed strategies in public interest litigation : avoiding unintended consequences through integrative legal perspectives  -- Helgi Maki and C. Tess Sheldon; title: The wheels of justice : reflections from the Public Interest Law Centre of Legal Aid Manitoba  -- Joëlle Pastora Sala and Allison Fenske -- The symbiotic relationship between social movements and public interest litigation : a case study of the I am a Witness Campaign and the human rights complaint of 165,000 First Nations kids / -- Anne Levesque; title: The work outside the courtroom : public and government engagement in the Carter v. Canada case -- Josh Paterson -- Part 2.; title: Procedural and technical issues --; title: Justiciability, access to justice and summary procedures in public interest litigation  -- Gerard J. Kennedy and Lorne Sossin; title: Stand by me : public interest standing and immigration and refugee advocacy in Canada  -- Angus Grant; title: Public interest party status : a study of Y.Z. v. Canada  -- Maureen Silcoff; title: Yaiguaje and security for costs : litigation tactics yield to advancing and restating the law  -- Christine Laing -- Part 3.; title: Interventions --; title: Just going through the motions : the Supreme Court, interest groups and the performance of intervention  -- Daniel Sheppard; title: Divine intervention : a study of the operation and impact of NGO interveners in Canadian religious freedom litigation  -- Kathryn Chan and Howard Kislowicz; title: The law of intervention after the TWU Law School case : is justice seen to be done?  -- Barry W. Bussey; title: Shadow interveners   -- Maegen Giltrow and Nathan Hume; title: With a little help from too many friends? Lessons from TWU and Comeau on intervening before the Supreme Court  -- Christopher D. Bredt, Ewa Krajewska and Mannu Chowdhury; title: Balancing act : practical lessons for human rights interventions  -- Gavin Magrath and Gail Davidson; title: Friends of the court : public interest interveners in Lizotte v. Aviva Insurance Co. of Canada and Alberta (Information and Privacy Commissioner) v. University of Calgary  -- Eleanor Vaughan; title: Legal strategies for intervention in cases advancing the rights of persons with mental health disabilities  -- Karen R. Spector -- Part 4.; title: Case studies in Canadian public interest litigation --; title: Locating the public interest in patent law  -- E. Richard Gold and Rachel Meland; title: The boxes law puts us in : a comment on Ali v. Canada  -- Joshua Blum; title: Habeas corpus and immigration detention : a case study of Scotland v. Canada (Attorney General)  -- David Cote and Subodh Bharatiw and Nathan Hume; title: Solitary confinement : a test case litigation story -- Alison M. Latimer.