Policy Change, Courts, and the Canadian Constitution

Policy Change, Courts, and the Canadian Constitution
Author: Emmett Macfarlane
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Total Pages: 461
Release: 2018-01-01
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1487523157

Policy Change, Courts, and the Canadian Constitution aims to further our understanding of judicial policy impact and the role of the courts in shaping policy change. Bringing together a group of political scientists and legal scholars, this volume delves into a diverse set of policy areas, including health care issues, the regulation of elections, criminal justice policy, minority language education, citizenship, refugee policy, human rights legislation, and Indigenous policy. While much of the public law and judicial politics literatures focus on the impact of the constitution and the judicial role, scholarship on courts that makes policy change its central lens of analysis is surprisingly rare. Multidisciplinary in its approach to examining policy issues, this book focuses on specific cases or policy issues through a wide-ranging set of approaches, including the use of interview data, policy analysis, historical and interpretive analysis, and jurisprudential analysis.

The Constitutional Protection of Freedom of Expression

The Constitutional Protection of Freedom of Expression
Author: Richard Moon
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Total Pages: 330
Release: 2000-01-01
Genre: Law
ISBN: 9780802078360

Moon argues that recognition of the social dynamic of communication is critical to understanding the potential value and harm of language and to addressing questions about the scope and limits on one's rights to freedom of expression.

Just Words

Just Words
Author: Joel Bakan
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Total Pages: 241
Release: 1997-01-01
Genre: Law
ISBN: 080200461X

Joel Bakan argues that the Canadian Charter of Rights (1982) has failed to promote social justice because it is administered by a conservative judiciary and because social and economic conditions constantly interfere with its principles.

Charter Justice in Canadian Criminal Law

Charter Justice in Canadian Criminal Law
Author: Don Stuart
Publisher:
Total Pages: 692
Release: 2010
Genre: Law
ISBN:

"The fifth edition had to be substantially revised to reflect the impact of recent Supreme Court of Canada bellweather decisions in Grant and the companion decisions in Harrison and Suberu. These decisions require a new approach to the meaning of detention for Charter purposes and to the remedy of exclusion of evidence under section 24(2) of the Charter. Much of the voluminous prior jurisprudence on section 24(2) over the past 27 years relating to the meaning and consequences of conscripting the accused in violation of the Charter is now of little moment. New clarifications and new questions are identified."--Pub. desc.