Afghanistan Public Interest Hearings
The BCCLA continues its work before the Military Police Complaints Commission as part of the public interest investigation into the handling of detainees by Canadian Forces in Afghanistan. The BCCLA […]
Arar v. Ashcroft et al.
The BCCLA supported Maher Arar’s U.S. civil suit against American officials for their role in his rendition and torture in Syria. We argued that Mr. Arar is entitled to a […]
Crookes v. Newton
In this case the Supreme Court of Canada will consider whether hyperlinking to defamatory material – defamatory material hosted by someone else, elsewhere on the internet – amounts to publication […]
Warman and Lemire v. Canadian Human Rights Commission
This case concerns the constitutionality of the hate speech provisions of the Canadian Human Rights Act. The BCCLA has been granted leave as an intervener and will argue before the Federal […]
R. v. Cornell
The BCCLA argued in the Supreme Court of Canada that the Calgary Police Services used excessive force and violated the “knock and announce” rule when its Tactical Enforcement Unit used […]
PHS Community Services Society v. Canada (Attorney General)
This case concerns Insite, a supervised injection facility in the Downtown Eastside of Vancouver. The operation of Insite has prevented overdose deaths, reduced the suffering of addicts and lessened the […]
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, et al. v. Attorney General of Quebec, et al.
This case concerns the constitutionality of restrictions on media access to Quebec courts imposed by Quebec judges and Quebec’s Minister of Justice. The rules ban the broadcast of court recordings, […]
Canada (Prime Minister) v. Khadr
The BCCLA appeared at the Supreme Court of Canada to argue that the Government of Canada must take steps to seek the repatriation of child soldier and Guantanamo detainee Omar […]
CanWest MediaWorks Publications Inc. v. Horizon Publications
The BCCLA was granted leave to intervene in a lawsuit launched by Canwest MediaWorks over an alleged trademark infringement based on a mock edition of the Vancouver Sun. The publication […]
The Braidwood Inquiry
The Braidwood hearing and study commission was a public inquiry into the death of Robert Dziekanski. Mr. Dziekanski died after being tasered five times by an RCMP constable at the […]
