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Cases & Decisions

• Landlord Tenant Board requires Youth Court Order for YCJA records to be used for Eviction Application

  In this case, a landlord sought to evict the parent of a child on various grounds including allegations of illegal…

• KAB v Registrar General [Name change for Transgender Youth]

  JFCY represented a 17 year-old transgender youth who sought to have her name changed. The Change of Name Act in…

• BB and JFCY v Minister of Citizenship and Immigration [Immigration Detention of Child]

  JFCY was a public interest litigant in a judicial review of a decision to continue the detention of a woman,…

• R v ZW [Access to YCJA Pre-Sentence Report]

  JFCY acted as amicus curiae to the Ontario Court of Justice where the applicant was a plaintiff in a negligence…

• Kanthasamy v Canada [Humanitarian & Compassionate Application by a Child]

  JFCY intervened in this case at the Supreme Court of Canada. At the time of the hearing, the appellant was…

• CMM v DGC [Minor does not require a litigation guardian to apply for child support]

  JFCY intervened in the appeal of CMM v. DGC which deals with the question of whether a minor applying to…

• Canadian Doctors for Refugee Care et al v Canada [Refugee Health Care]

  JFCY was a public interest applicant to a court challenge to the 2012 cuts in Refugee Healthcare by the Government…

• Ashley Smith Inquest

  The Ashley Smith inquest was an Ontario coroner’s inquest into the death of young offender Ashley Smith, a teenager who…

• R v RC [DNA samples]

  A Nova Scotia court ordered that a young person found guilty of an assault was required to give a DNA sample. The decision was appealed to the Supreme Court of Canada. Justice for Children and Youth intervened in this case as a “friend of the court”. Lawyers at Justice for Children and Youth successfully argued that in deciding whether to order DNA from a young person the trial judge must take into account the underlying principles and objectives of the youth criminal justice legislation as well as those in international law.