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The Court and the Charter: Leading Cases

Status: Available
Author: Thomas Bateman, Janet Hiebert, Rainer Knopff, Peter Russell
ISBN/ISSN: 978-1-55239-276-8
Year: 2008
Description: Text / Softcover / One colour / 392 pages
Instructor's Guide/Teacher's Resource: Not Available
Subject: Constitutional/Human Rights Law/The Charter, Political Science
Division: University
Publisher: Emond Montgomery Publications
Contact: Instructor Support

Overview

Adding to the 16 Charter cases included in The Court and the Constitution, this companion volume features 31 edited Charter decisions accompanied by commentary and analysis. Discussion questions are provided for each of these landmark cases to help facilitate classroom debate and further study, and an introductory essay examines the significance of the Charter over the last quarter century, and its role in Canadian politics and law.

TopOnline Cases

Dozens of additional edited cases (with introductions) are available online at www.emp.ca/SCCdecisions. (A password is required. Please contact Mike Thompson at mthompson@emp.ca.)

TopContent Summary

Introductory Essay

PART ONE: The Pre-Charter Era

1. The Alberta Press Case, 1938
2. Attorney General of Canada v. Lavell and Bedard, 1974

PART TWO: Fundamental Freedoms

3. Big M Drug Mart Ltd. v. The Queen, 1985
4. Quebec v. Ford et al. (Quebec Sign Case), 1988
5. R. v. Keegstra, 1990
6. R. v. Butler, 1992
7. RJR-MacDonald Inc. v. Canada (Attorney General), 1995
8. Multani v. Commission scolaire Marguerite-Bourgeoys 2006

PART THREE: Labour Rights

9. Alberta Labour Reference, 1987
10. Health Services and Support—FSBA v. British Columbia, 2007

PART FOUR: Democratic Rights

11. Sauvé v. Canada (Chief Electoral Officer), 2002
12. Harper v. Canada (Attorney General), 2004

PART FIVE: Legal Rights

13. Reference re B.C. Motor Vehicle Act, 1985
14. The Queen v. Oakes, 1986
15. Morgentaler v. The Queen, 1988
16. R. v. Seaboyer, 1991
17. R. v. Daviault, 1994
18. R. v. Mills, 1999
19. United States v. Burns, 2001
20. Charkaoui v. Canada (Citizenship and Immigration), 2007

PART SIX: Social and Economic Rights

21. Gosselin v. Quebec (Attorney General), 2002
22. Chaoulli v. Quebec (Attorney General), 2005

PART SEVEN: Remedies

23. R. v. Collins, 1987
24. R. v. Askov, 1990

PART EIGHT: Equality Rights

25. Andrews v. Law Society of British Columbia, 1989
26. Law v. Canada (Minister of Employment and Immigration), 1999
27. M v. H., 1999
28. Auton v. British Columbia (Attorney General), 2004
29. Newfoundland (Treasury Board) v. N.A.P.E., 2004
30. Reference re Same-Sex Marriage, 2004

PART NINE: Language Rights

31. Mahe v. Alberta, 1990

Appendix: The Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, 1982

TopAbout the Authors

Thomas Bateman is Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Political Science at St. Thomas University in Fredericton.

Janet Hiebert is a Professor in the Department of Political Studies at Queen’s University in Kingston.

Rainer Knopff is a Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Calgary.

Peter H. Russell is a Professor in the Political Science Department at the University of Toronto.