ETFO et al v Her Majesty the Queen [Sex Ed Curriculum]
Court: Ontario Superior Court of Justice, Divisional Court, 2019
JFCY intervened in this judicial review, brought by the Elementary Teachers Federation of Ontario (ETFO), and joined to a similar case brought by the Canadian Civil Liberties Association (CCLA). This case challenged the decision of the Ontario Government to repeal the 2015 Health and Physical Education Curriculum, and direct elementary teachers to teach an older…
Read Full Case ArticleR v Le [Arbitrary Detention in Backyard]
Court: Supreme Court of Canada, 2019
JFCY intervened in an appeal where a 19 year old was charged after the police entered the backyard of his 17 year old friend where a group of people were gathering. This case challenged the constitutionality of the detention and search of young people. JFCY made submissions about the way the Charter rights of young…
Read Full Case ArticleMayes and JFCY v Minister of Citizenship and Immigration [Citizenship Application Fees]
Court: Federal Court, 2019
JFCY was a public interest litigant in a proceeding before the Federal Court seeking the right of applicants for citizenship to seek an exemption (or reduction of fees) in cases of special and unusual hardship. Below is the notice issued following the settlement of the case, links to the settlement order, and the materials filed…
Read Full Case ArticleOntario Children’s Lawyer v Ontario Information and Privacy Commissioner [Privacy of OCL Records]
Court: Ontario Court of Appeal, 2018
JFCY intervened in this case. The background to this case is that a child was represented in a custody and access dispute before the family court by the Children’s Lawyer for Ontario (Children’s Lawyer). Following the family court process, the father made an application to the Ministry of Attorney General (MAG) under the Freedom of…
Read Full Case ArticleHer Majesty the Queen v TB-J [Sentence of Reprimand]
Court: Ontario Court of Appeal, 2017
JFCY intervened in this case where the Court was considering whether the sentence of a reprimand was appropriate when the young people were found guilty of a serious offence (unlawfully in a dwelling place). JFCY submitted that the Court should decline to articulate a legal test for the imposition of a judicial reprimand for a…
Read Full Case ArticleToronto Police Service v LD v Mignardi [Access to Youth Records for Police Discipline]
Court: Ontario Court of Appeal, 2017
The Ontario Court of Appeal dismissed the appeal and the lower court’s decision was set aside on the technical ground that the proper route to review the lower court’s decision was a certiorari application to the Superior Court judge and that the parties were free to go back and do so (however, they did not).…
Read Full Case ArticleCurtis Lewis v The Minister of Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness [Deportation of Parent, Aboriginal Child]
Court: Federal Court of Appeal, 2017
This is an appeal of an Enforcement Officer’s decision to deport the Appellant, the father of an Aboriginal Canadian child. The Appellant argued that deporting him would violate his child’s rights under section 7 of the Charter and overlooked the Best Interests of his child. The child would accompany the father if he were to be deported. JFCY’s…
Read Full Case ArticleBoyer v John Doe et al [YCJA records disclosure sought for civil proceeding]
Court: Ontario Court of Justice, 2017
A civil proceeding was commenced by the Applicant, seeking damages in relation to a fire to the Applicant’s home against the “John Doe Respondents” (and others). The John Doe Respondents are young people who’s privacy rights are protected by the Youth Criminal Justice Act. In these proceedings, the Applicant asked a Youth Court for access…
Read Full Case ArticleRG v KG [Withdrawal from Parental Control]
Court: Ontario Court of Appeal, 2017
JFCY represented OG, the young person in this case. Brief details: OG withdrew from parental control and made an application for a Declaration from the Superior Court to that effect. The Declaration was granted. Her parent, RG, sought to be added as a party to the proceedings and for enforcement of the prior custody order…
Read Full Case ArticleNL v RRM [Custody and Withdrawal from Parental Control]
Court: Ontario Court of Appeal, 2016
This is a case where an Arbritator awarded RRM (the father) sole custody over DM and MM (the children) and, among other things, ordered that they all attend a parental alienation program together. MM was 17 years old at that time and was given the choice to go with his father and attend the program,…
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