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KB and TM v Toronto District School Board and Louie Papathanasakis (principal) Emery Collegiate Institute (Court file 55/06) [School transfers]
JFCY intervened as a “friend of the court” at a judicial review at the Ontario Divisional Court. Lawyers at JFCY…
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Jackson v Toronto Catholic District School Board et al [Expulsions, Fair Hearing, Right to an Education]
JFCY was granted intervener standing in a judicial review of an expulsion of an 11 year old boy from a Toronto school. This is one of the first cases before the Ontario Divisional Court to address the application of the Safe Schools Act which has led to a significant increase in the number of students expelled from Ontario public schools.
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Kawartha Pine Ridge District School Board v Grant [Expulsion for marijuana off school property]
JFCY intervened in case where a high school student had been expelled from school for sharing marijuana with other young people at a house party on a Saturday night.
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R v Banks [Challenge of the Safe Streets Act]
JFCY represented some young people who were ticketed under the Safe Streets Act for squeegeeing and panhandling. The defendants challenged the constitutionality…
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Canadian Foundation for Children Youth and the Law v Canada (Attorney General) [Section 43, Corporal Punishment]
In 1998, we launched a constitutional challenge to the criminal defence for corporal punishment of children.
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AC v. Director of Child and Family Services [Manitoba] [Health Care, Consent and Capacity]
JFCY was granted intervener status in a case where, A.C., a 14 year old girl challenged provisions in Manitoba’s child welfare legislation that authorized child protection authorities to override her refusal of a blood transfusion through a court order. She was found by doctors to have capacity to make medical decisions, but the court ruled that a blood transfusion was in her best interests and ordered that she be forced to undergo the procedure.
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R v JZS [child victim, child witness, testifying]
JFCY was granted intervener standing in a case in which an accused was challenging the provisions of the Criminal Code…
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Prime Minister of Canada v Khadr [Child soldier, Canadian citizen, Charter, UN Convention]
JFCY was granted intervener standing in coalition with the Canadian Coalition for the Rights of Children (CCRC) in this 2010…
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Toronto Star Newspapers Ltd v R et al [Media access to Youth Records]
A reporter from the Toronto Star is seeking access to confidential youth court records in 311 Jarvis' Youth Justice Court.