Friday, February 27, 2015 - 9:00am to Saturday, February 28, 2015 - 3:55pm
Location: 
Alumni Hall, Victoria College, University of Victoria at the University of Toronto

Conference illustrationThis one day conference organized by the David Asper Centre for Constitutional Rights examines in detail the interplay between sections 7 and 15 of the Charter.

Papers will be presented that stimulate and develop an ongoing exploration of the relationship between sections 7 and 15. Issues addressed include:

• Is equality a principle of fundamental justice under section 7?
• How have the courts treated the two separate grounds for challenging government action?
• Are there strategic advantages to pleading both grounds or only one?
• How can different cases challenging the same law proceed differently based on the ground pleaded (e.g. Bedford and Downtown Eastside Sex Workers)?
• How does the relationship between the sections play out in circumstances such as mandatory minimum sentencing, challenges to the NCR provisions, human smuggling legislation?

Other conference topics may include issues such the role of individual choice in respect of both equality and liberty rights; harm or dignity as central themes; socio-economic rights or the rights of the poor; and arbitrariness as an element of the analysis under each section.

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