LEAF cases from 1995 to 1999

Case	Description	Year	Facta
R. v. Mills	The court upheld an important law that limits an accused person's access to personal records in sexual offense proceedings. Given that the Court had set out a different test just four years earlier in the O'Connor case, the judicial endorsement of the legislation was a vindication...	1999
R. v. Ewanchuk	A 17-year old woman went for a job interview in a trailer at a city mall in Alberta. By the time she left she had been subjected to unwanted sexual touching by a 49 year old man - her prospective employer...	1999
M.v. H.	The case of M. v. H involved a woman, "M," who wanted to sue her former same-sex partner, "H", for support when their relationship dissolved. Because "M" is a lesbian, she discovered that she could not use an Ontario family law to gain financial support from "H"...	1999	none
BCGSEU v. PSERC	Tawney Meiorin, a female forest fire fighter in BC, had worked in this male dominated profession for over two years with good reviews. Then the BC government decided that all fire fighters had to pass a set of tests to show that they could physically do the job. Tawney passed all but one test...	1999
JG v. Minister of Health and Community Services of New Brunswick	The Supreme Court of Canada ruled that New Brunswick's failure to provide legal aid in child wardship cases violate the Charter rights of a poor woman. J.G, a New Brunswick woman, appealed a lower court decision that denied her legal aid when a social services agency applied for an extension to temporary wardship of her three children...	1999	none
Francis v. Canada (Ont.)	This case involved a Grenadian woman who, after being in Canada without immigration status for nine years, was ordered deported. She had two Canadian-born children; her third child, born in Grenada, was ordered deported with her...	1999
Falkiner et al v. The Queen	The Ontario Court of Appeal struck down the Ontario Government's "spouse in the house" rule for welfare eligibility as discriminatory. At issue was whether amendments to Ontario's social assistance regulations, which significantly change the definition of "spouse" for the purpose of receiving social assistance, violate section 7 (security of the person) and 15 (equality) of the Charter...	1999
Vriend v. Alberta	Delwin Vriend was fired from his teaching job in 1991 for being gay, in spite of his favourable work record. He attempted to file a complaint with the Alberta Human Rights Commission but discovered that he was legally unable to do so because Alberta does not prohibit discrimination against gays and lesbians...	1998
Ferrel v. A.G	Marilyn Ferrel challenged the constitutionality of the Job Quotas Repeal Act which was enacted by the Ontario government to repeal the Employment Equity Act (EEA). The EEA had been created by a previous government to eliminate systemic discrimination in employment against women, racial minorities, people with disabilities and Aboriginal peoples...	1998
Winnipeg Child and Family Services v. G (D.F.)	A young Aboriginal woman, known as G., was ordered confined to a treatment centre because she was allegedly sniffing glue while pregnant with her fourth child. Winnipeg Child and Family Services (CFS) asked a judge for an order to have her involuntarily confined and he complied in order to protect the fetus...	1997
R.D.S v. The Queen	In this case, the Black judge's comments, made when she acquitted a racial minority youth, R.D.S., of assault charges against a White police officer, were considered biased because the comments acknowledged racism in Halifax, including racism by police officers...	1997
Eldridge v. Attorney General	When Robin Eldridge, a deaf BC woman, went to hospital, she sought sign language interpretation from her local health insurance plan so she could understand the medical treatment being offered her. It was denied however, because BC's Medical Protection Act and the Hospital Insurance Act do not cover interpretation services for deaf people...	1997
R. v. Lewis	At issue in this case is whether B.C.'s Access to Abortion Services Act infringes on an individual's freedom of religion, assembly and expression...	1996
Robin James Goertz v. Janet Rita Gordon	A court order allowing Janet Gordon, a Saskatchewan mother, to relocate with her daughter was challenged by her ex-husband. Ms. Gordon wanted to move with the child to take a new job in Australia but the father said it would limit his access to the child...	1996
The Queen v. Suzanne Thibaudeau	Suzanne Thibaudeau, a divorced mother of two, went to the Supreme Court of Canada to challenge regulations in the Income Tax Act which required her to pay income tax on her child support payments, although her ex-spouse could deduct the payments from his taxable income...	1995
The Queen v. O'Connor	LEAF and a coalition of women's organizations intervened before the B.C Court of Appeal in the case of Bishop O'Connor who was charged with the rape and indecent assault of four Aboriginal women...	1995
L.L.A et al. v. Beharriell	This case dealt with whether counseling records could be ordered as evidence in sexual assault cases in order to determine the credibility of the witness...	1995