The Supreme Court of Canada has recently announced it will deliver judgment in the application for leave to appeal in Boulter v. Nova Scotia Power Incorporated, 2009 NSCA 17. In anticipation of such judgment, it is worthwhile to re-examine the issues at stake in the decision. While much has been written on the mechanics of [...]

R. v. Kapp in the Context of Equality Jurisprudence Last June’s ruling in R. v. Kapp , 2008 SCC 41, provided much needed clarification of the convoluted equality jurisprudence ensuing from the imposition of the Law ([1999] S.C.R. 497) test nine years ago. Hailing the original Andrews ([1989] 1 S.C.R. 143) formulation as supreme, with [...]