More than twenty years ago, the late Justice William J. Brennan of the U.S. Supreme Court penned an impassioned dissent in California v. Greenwood, 486 U.S. 35 (1988) to a majority opinion that denied the existence...
One of my constitutional law professors once remarked that the rights-based ethic of my generation is largely informed by the fact of our coming of age in the post-Charter era....
The mainstream media is abuzz with the Supreme Court of Canada’s decision, released last week, denying leave to appeal to Air Canada, Jazz Air LP v Canada (Canadian Transportation Agency),...
Almost twenty-five years ago, Chief Justice Dickson famously proclaimed in Hunter v Southam, [1984] 2 SCR 145 [Hunter], that s. 8 of the Charter “protects people not places.” In so doing,...
