Resources

Cases & Decisions

• Fair Change v Ontario [Safe Streets Act challenge]

  JFCY intervened in the Charter challenge of Ontario’s Safe Streets Act.  On April 2, 2024 the Ontario Superior Court of…

• Penney-Crocker et al. v Canada [Voting Age Challenge]

  JFCY and the David Asper Centre for Constitutional Rights is representing a group of individual young people from across Canada in…

• R v NM [access to youth records beyond access period, s 119 YCJA]

  In the context of a homicide trial of a young adult in the Superior Court of Justice, the Crown had…

• The Coroner’s Inquest into the Death of Devon Freeman

  JFCY was granted standing as a public interest party at this Inquest which took place over four weeks in September…

• DK (by her Litigation Guardian) v York Catholic District School Board

  JFCY acted as co-counsel with Torys LLP, representing Daria Kandaharian, a high school student who challenged her school board’s policy…

• CP v Her Majesty the Queen [YCJA, right of appeal to SCC]

  JFCY intervened in this appeal about the requirement under the Youth Criminal Justice Act requiring a young person to “seek…

• Susan Hume Smith v Canada (Attorney General) and Justice for Children and Youth [CPP benefits]

  JFCY has intervened in the appeal of a matter before the Social Security Tribunal. As a result of a disability,…

• LS v YouthLink Youth Services [transitional housing eviction]

  In March 2020, LS was evicted by Youthlink Youth Services. She had been living at Youthlink’s transitional housing program, a…

• JFCY v JG [young person’s right to legal advice]

  In December of 2019, the father of JFCY’s fourteen and a half year old client (“the child”) urgently sought and…