Access Coalition v Court of Appeal
The Access o Abortion Services Act expressly empowers government to abrogate freedom of expression by establishing “access ones” within which various proscriptions set out in the Act apply. In Slaight […]
Royal City Jewellers and Loans Ltd. and Court of Appeal
The Respondent’s bylaw, entitled “A Bylaw to regulate Second Hand Dealers within the City of New Westminster,” requires pawnshops to collect vast amounts of personal infromation from their customers and […]
Kennedy, BCCLA and Zaccardelli
British Columbia Civil Liberties Association (Applicant) and Paul Kennedy, Commission Chairman of the, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police Public Complaints Commission, Royal Canadian Mounted Police, Attorney General of Canada and […]
R. v. Terezakis
The BCCLA submits that this appeal raises issues of fundamental importance to liberty interests. The BCCLA submits that rigorous Charter scrutiny of the criminal organization provisions in the Criminal Code […]
Constitutionality of Security Certificates: Harkat, Charkaoui, Almrei
In the context of security certificates, this appeal will define the constitutional limits of the power of the government executive and judiciary to rely on secret evidence to the prejudice […]
Barker and Vancouver Police Department v. Hayes
The BC Court of Appeal upheld a decision by the BC Human Rights Tribunal to accept a human rights complaint for filing. Peter Hayes brought a complaint against the Vancouver […]
CFS/BCTF v. Greater Vancouver Transportation Authority
The question raised by this appeal was whether government entities have the right to control the content of the expression that took place on the side of buses. The BCCLA […]
CFS BCTF v. Greater Vancouver Transportation Authority
The question raised by this argument was whether government entities have the right to control the content of the expression that took place on the side of buses. The BCCLA […]
Julie Berg (Appellant) and Police Complaint Commissioner, Dirk Ryneveld, Q.C. (Respondent) and David Bruce-Thomas (Respondent).
The BCCLA restricts its submissions to two questions that arise as a matter of the interpretation of the Police Act, R.S.B.C. 1996 c. 367. The first question concerns the participatory […]
CFS BCTF v. Greater Vancouver Transportation Authority (1)
The Plaintiffs in this action challenge decisions taken by the Board of Directors of the Defendants, The Greater Vancouver Transportation Authority (TransLink) and British Columbia Transit (BC Transit), which caused […]
