scholarly journals Collective Bargaining and the Charter: Assessing the Impact of American Judicial Doctrines

2005 ◽  
Vol 46 (4) ◽  
pp. 722-750
Author(s):  
Donald D. Carter ◽  
Thomas McIntosh
Keyword(s):  
Collective Bargaining ◽  
Supreme Court ◽  
Supreme Court Of Canada ◽  
The Supreme Court ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Fundamental Values

This study analyses the impact of American judicial doctrines upon recent Charter decisions relating to Canada's collective bargaining laws. The first section of the paper explores the constitutional foundations of the Canadian and American labour regimes in terms of the fundamental values entrenched in their respective constitutional arrangements. The second section of the paper is an overview of the Charter era labour regime as it has been articulated by the Canadian judiciary and, in particular, by the Supreme Court of Canada. It is the mixed results of this part of the investigation that led us to some tentative conclusions about the impact upon Canadian courts of American judicial influences.

The concept of human dignity in the case-law of the Supreme Court of Canada on Charter Equality Rights

2021 ◽  
Vol 30 (5) ◽  
pp. 118-137
Author(s):  
Tatiana Vasilieva ◽  
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Human Rights ◽  
Supreme Court ◽  
Human Dignity ◽  
Case Law ◽  
Supreme Court Of Canada ◽  
Equality Rights ◽  
The Supreme Court ◽  
Additional Burden ◽  
The Impact

This article explores the evolution of the Supreme Court of Canada’s approach to the application of the concept of human dignity in constitutional equality cases. Traditionally, in human rights cases, this concept serves only to strengthen the argument, to show that the violation affects the person’s intrinsic worth. It is only in Canada and in South Africa that there is experience in applying the concept as a criterion for identifying discrimination. In 1999, in Law v. Canada, the Supreme Court recognized the purpose of Article 15(1) of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms of 1982 to be the protection of human dignity and stated that discrimination must be established based on assessment of the impact of a program or law on human dignity. However, in 2008, in R. v. Kapp, the Court noted that the application of the concept of human dignity creates difficulties and places an additional burden of prove on the plaintiff. It is no coincidence that victims of discrimination have preferred to seek protection before human rights tribunals and commissions, where the dignity-based test is not used. Subsequently, the Supreme Court of Canada rejected the use of the concept of human dignity as a criterion for identifying discrimination. The unsuccessful experience of applying the concept of human dignity as legal test has demonstrated that not every theoretically correct legal construction is effective in adjudication.

scholarly journals The Impact of the Supreme Court of Canada on Intergovernmental Relations

Federalism-E ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Benjamin Goldlist
Keyword(s):  
Supreme Court ◽  
Intergovernmental Relations ◽  
Democratic Legitimacy ◽  
Supreme Court Of Canada ◽  
Political Resources ◽  
Canadian Federalism ◽  
The Supreme Court ◽  
Constitutional Adjudication ◽  
The Impact

The role of the Supreme Court in the practice of Canadian federalism, specifically the extent of its power and the effects of that power, is a hotly contested issue in Canadian political science. While some scholars have argued that the Court has taken on too political of a role that must be restricted, this paper develops the Court as a constitutional ‘umpire,’ whose rulings serve the important, but limited, functions of allocating political resources to incentivize negotiation, and establishing jurisdictional boundaries for said negotiations, leaving specific policy decisions to political, as opposed to legal, actors. Concerning the net outcome of the Court’s jurisprudence on the distribution of legislative powers, this paper illustrates the Court’s overall balancing approach, with grants of power to one level of government met with increases in authority to the other, in all major policy areas. Thus, ultimately shown to embrace both a limited and impartial approach to constitutional adjudication, the Court has done much to enhance its democratic legitimacy and constitutional utility.

scholarly journals R. V. SHARPE AND THE DEFENCE OF ARTISTIC MERIT

2011 ◽  
Vol 12 (1, 2 & 3) ◽  
pp. 2001
Author(s):  
June Ross
Keyword(s):  
Supreme Court ◽  
Child Pornography ◽  
Criminal Code ◽  
Supreme Court Of Canada ◽  
Legal Proceedings ◽  
Judicial Decisions ◽  
The Supreme Court ◽  
Artistic Merit ◽  
The Impact

The impact of judicial decisions is sometimes most significant and most controversial in relation to matters that were not at the forefront in the legal proceedings. The decision in R. v. Sharpe1 may be such a case. In this decision, the Supreme Court of Canada upheld, with minor qualifications, the offence of private possession of child pornography under section 163.1 of the Criminal Code.2 The case was argued and resolved largely as an issue of privacy — could the prohibition on child pornography extend to private possession, while remaining within constitutional limits?

scholarly journals Highway Properties - Look Both Ways Before Crossing

1969 ◽  
pp. 477
Author(s):  
Gordon Sustrik
Keyword(s):  
Supreme Court ◽  
Supreme Court Of Canada ◽  
The Supreme Court ◽  
The Impact

This article discusses the impact and effect that the Supreme Court of Canada decision in the Highway Properties case has had on leases and landlord-and-tenant law. The remedies that a landlord has available for breach of a lease are examined as well as the doctrine of surrender by operation of law and the duty to mitigate. The author questions the classification of a lease as a contract versus a conveyance of an estate in land.

scholarly journals A Decade Later: The Legacy of the Supreme Court of Canada's Health Services Decision on Workers' Rights

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Brad Walchuk
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Health Services ◽  
Supreme Court ◽  
Supreme Court Of Canada ◽  
Constitutional Rights ◽  
Canadian Charter ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Supreme Court ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Financial Penalty

The year 2017 marked the ten-year anniversary of the Health Services case, a precedent-setting decision by the Supreme Court of Canada that ruled collective bargaining is protected by the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. This article explores the impact and legacy of BC Health Services, and finds that while workers’ constitutional rights have been expanded under the Charter over the past decade, governments nevertheless continue to violate these rights. It concludes that the legacy of the case is not an enhanced level of protection for these rights to be enjoyed fully, but rather that the default option has been and will continue to be a financial penalty for the state in instances in which they violate workers’ rights.  KEYWORDS  labour rights; Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms; human rights; health services

scholarly journals The Rise and Fall of Plaintiff-Friendly Causation

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vaughan Black
Keyword(s):  
Supreme Court ◽  
Supreme Court Of Canada ◽  
The Supreme Court ◽  
Lower Courts ◽  
The Law ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Do So

Starting about a generation ago, Canadian courts altered the rules governing causation to make them more plaintiff-friendly. However, these changes came to be regarded as misguided. In the 2012 decision Clements v. Clements, the Supreme Court of Canada modified the doctrine, reversing the plaintiff-friendly trend that had defined the law of causation for decades. This article will explore how Clements effectively curtailed the test of causation. It will do so in part by examining the impact it has had on the lower courts in subsequent years.

scholarly journals The Labour Relations and the Canadian Charter; the aftermath of the first decisions

2019 ◽  
Vol 19 (4) ◽  
pp. 895-907
Author(s):  
J. Maurice Cantin
Keyword(s):  
Supreme Court ◽  
Supreme Court Of Canada ◽  
Labour Law ◽  
Canadian Charter ◽  
Labour Relations ◽  
The Supreme Court ◽  
The Right ◽  
The Impact

The Charter was introduced at a time when there was no real demand for its existence. In this article, the author reviews the origin of the Charter and examines the impact on labour law of the initial decisions rendered by our Courts. He examines more particularly some of the first Charter decisions emanating from the Supreme Court of Canada. He writes that the Charter may have a damaging effect on labour law especially in relation to the right to strike and to picket. He concludes that the Charter is ill-suited for use in the labour relations domain.

scholarly journals Open secularism and the RCMP turban debate

2020 ◽  
Vol 67 (1) ◽  
pp. 18-28
Author(s):  
Richard Mann
Keyword(s):  
National Identity ◽  
Supreme Court ◽  
Federal Government ◽  
Policy Change ◽  
Police Officers ◽  
Supreme Court Of Canada ◽  
Royal Canadian Mounted Police ◽  
The Supreme Court ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Newspaper Articles

This article examines newspaper articles and opinion pieces related to the 1989 and 1990 case of allowing RCMP (Royal Canadian Mounted Police) officers to wear turbans as part of their formal uniform. Many of those opposed to allowing for this change in RCMP policy demonstrate a sense of an assumed national identity that tends to label immigrants and people from non-European backgrounds as un-Canadian. Once the federal government approved this change in RCMP policy, some of the groups that opposed it attempted to bring it to the Supreme Court of Canada. The argument they made was one for closed secularism. The policy change, however, and the impact it had on Baltej Singh Dhillon, the first Sikh RCMP officer who became an officer and was allowed to wear his turban the results of which present a case for open secularism.

scholarly journals Madam Justice Bertha Wilson: A Different Voice in the Supreme Court of Canada

1996 ◽  
Vol 35 (1) ◽  
pp. 242 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Halka
Keyword(s):  
Supreme Court ◽  
Detailed Examination ◽  
Legal Framework ◽  
Supreme Court Of Canada ◽  
Holistic View ◽  
The Supreme Court ◽  
Principles Of Justice ◽  
Normative Standard ◽  
The One ◽  
The Impact

This article discusses the impact of the appointment of Madam Justice Wilson, the first woman judge, to the Supreme Court of Canada. The author explores the thesis that Justice Wilson provided a "different voice" to the highest court of Canada with an analysis of two opposing forces underlying her work. On the one hand. Justice Wilson adhered to the restraints of judicial decision-making regarding principles of law and community morality. On the other hand, with the influence of psychologist Carol Gilligan, Justice Wilson aspired to infuse Canadian jurisprudence with a "feminine morality" comprised of a contextual humanist approach to justice. The author applies this analysis to the jurisprudence of Madam Justice Wilson. With a detailed examination of R. v. Morgentaler and R. v. Lavallee, the author demonstrates Justice Wilson's ability to look beyond traditional abstract principles of justice and its normative standard. Justice Wilson constructed a legal framework, based on a contextual justice, that took a subjective and holistic view of the issues of the court. This article concludes with an outlook of the manner in which Madam Justice Wilson's mode of analysis will impact Canadian jurisprudence.

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