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This collection of papers takes a fresh look at the nature and authority of conscience, and considers the extent to which the law should recognize claims of conscience.
Interpreting the standards listed in section 1 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms has proven a difficult task, one which courts, decisionmakers, and legislatures have wrestled with over the first four decades of Charter jurisprudence. This collection offers fresh, innovative, and insightful perspectives on these challenges, and on the proper scope, contours, and limits of rights and freedoms.
This Year-In-Review volume comprises papers reviewing groundbreaking Supreme Court of Canada's 2021-2022 decisions in contract law, criminal law and family law, along with case comments, Rule of Law papers, excerpts of Supreme Court of Canada’s 2021 Annual Review and the 2021 & 2022 lists of oral and written judgments.
Author(s): Maxime St-Hilaire , Ryan Alford, Kristopher Kinsinger
ISBN: 9780433528203
Publication Date:
July 14, 2023
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This collection of papers was developed from Runnymede Society’s March 2022 academic symposium, “The Unwritten Principle of Constitutionalism in Canadian Jurisprudence”. It explores the topic of dissatisfaction with the state of constitutional interpretive methodology in Canadian law.