{"id":18369,"date":"2004-11-01T14:24:00","date_gmt":"2004-11-01T19:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.leaf.ca\/?post_type=publication&#038;p=18369"},"modified":"2020-12-04T14:35:14","modified_gmt":"2020-12-04T19:35:14","slug":"law-test-discrimination","status":"publish","type":"publication","link":"https:\/\/www.leaf.ca\/fr\/publication\/law-test-discrimination\/","title":{"rendered":"LEAF and the Law Test for Discrimination"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The 2004 paper \u00ab\u00a0Leaf and the <em>Law <\/em>Test for Discrimination: An Analysis of the Injury of <em>Law <\/em>and How to Repair It\u00a0\u00bb examines the flaws in the equality rights test set out in <em>Law v. Canada<\/em> and sets out LEAF&rsquo;s preferred equality rights analysis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In early 2002, LEAF&rsquo;s National Legal Committee to take the initiative in examining the <em>Law <\/em>test, and to plan how best to respond to the problems with the test. It was decided that there is a need to strengthen and sharpen equality rights analyses, and re-invigorate our strategies in order to be effective in the current complicated equality context. To this end, LEAF sponsored a two-part Colloquium in September 2003 and February 2004 addressing the theme \u00ab\u00a0In Pursuit of Substantive Equality.\u00a0\u00bb The overall goal of the Colloquium was to generate provocative think pieces and discussion that would advance our equality analyses and develop strategies to achieve substantive equality. This Colloquium provided an opportunity for legal experts and community advocates (including academics, activists, lawyers and front-line workers interested in social justice issues) to meet to analyze the Law decision and to strategize about options for reform.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In addition to organizing, contributing to, and participating in the Law Colloquium, the National Legal Committee conducted regular study sessions at which it analyzed key components of the <em>Law <\/em>test. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>All of this collective work product informed LEAF\u2019s Supreme Court interventions, heard within a month of each other, <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.leaf.ca\/case_summary\/newfoundland-association-of-public-employees-v-%e2%80%afnewfoundland-2004%e2%80%af\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">NAPE (Newfoundland Association of Public Employees) v. Newfoundland<\/a><\/em>, and <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.leaf.ca\/case_summary\/auton-2004\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Connor Auton v. British Columbia (Attorney General)<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The paper provides a summary of the results of LEAF\u2019s work on the <em>Law <\/em>project, including background on the case, problems with the discrimination test in <em>Law <\/em>and subsequent cases, LEAF\u2019s guiding equality rights principles, and LEAF\u2019s preferred equality rights analysis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Download the paper below.<\/p>\n\n\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.leaf.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/2004-11-Submission-LEAF-And-The-Law-Test-For-Discrimination-An-Analysis-Of-The-Injury-Of-Law-And-How-To-Repair-It.pdf\" class=\"pdfemb-viewer\" style=\"\" data-width=\"max\" data-height=\"max\" data-toolbar=\"bottom\" data-toolbar-fixed=\"off\">2004-11-Submission-LEAF-And-The-Law-Test-For-Discrimination-An-Analysis-Of-The-Injury-Of-Law-And-How-To-Repair-It<\/a>\n<p class=\"wp-block-pdfemb-pdf-embedder-viewer\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"categories":[],"tags":[141,99,425],"class_list":["post-18369","publication","type-publication","status-publish","hentry","tag-discrimination","tag-equality","tag-supreme-court-of-canada"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.1.1 - 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