These pages list the legal documents for the cases.
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 Court that extending hate speech provisions to the internet would … Read More
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, limit interviews to designated areas, and prevent reporters from following … Read More
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 parodied the layout of the Vancouver Sun while mocking the … Read More
This case challenged the City of Victoria’s bylaws that prevented homeless individuals from erecting shelters to protect themselves from the elements when sleeping outside. The BCCLA argued that telling homeless people who have nowhere else to go that they can … Read More
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 argued that refusing to allow the appellants to advertise on … Read More
During a debate over a controversial development in Powell River, B.C. three citizens publicly criticized the City’s decision making process. The City sent letters to the citizens threatening that the City would sue and demanding apologies and retractions in return … Read More
A law that restrains people from telling others what they think about politicians and political matters is a bad law. It interferes both with the freedom of the people who would speak and the freedom of the people who would … Read More
The BCCLA intervened at the Supreme Court of Canada to argue that without access to the government information citizens cannot freely express themselves. The case concerned the Ontario Provincial Police’s suppression of a report that detailed a flawed investigation of … Read More
This complaint before the B.C. Human Rights Tribunal alleged that the publication of an article titled “Why The Future Belongs to Islam” in Maclean’s Magazine and website amounted to discrimination on the basis of religion. The BCCLA intervened in this … Read More
This appeal concerned the free speech rights of a speaker on a matter of public interest. The defendant Mair read an editorial he had written on his radio show, in which he referred to the plaintiff on several occasions with … Read More
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