Resources

Cases & Decisions

• 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 acted as an intervener in the appeal of a matter before the Social Security Tribunal. As a result of…

• 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…

• Her Majesty the Queen v RV and TCHC [access to youth records for eviction]

  JFCY intervened in a judicial review where the Toronto Community Housing Corporation  (TCHC) sought the youth records of RV, a…

• R v KJM [Unreasonable delays in Youth Criminal Justice system]

  JFCY intervened in this appeal, which concerned the interpretation and application of section 11(b) of the Charter, the protection against…

• ETFO et al v Her Majesty the Queen [Sex Ed Curriculum]

  JFCY intervened in this judicial review, brought by the Elementary Teachers Federation of Ontario (ETFO), and joined to a similar…