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A Plumber with Words: Seeking Constitutional Responsibility and an End to the Little Sisters Problem
Abstract In this article, written in tribute to and memory of Joseph A. Arvay, the authors explore and address the “Little Sisters problem”: the tracing of endemic Charter wrongs to the “maladministration” of a law, rather than holding the law itself — and, with it, the legislator — responsible.
A Plumber with Words: Seeking Constitutional Responsibility and an End to the Little Sisters Problem
Osgoode Home > Osgoode Digital Commons > Scholarship > Scholarly Works > 2865 Authors Alison M. Latimer, Arvay Finlay LLP Benjamin L. Berger, Osgoode Hall Law School of York UniversityFollow Source Publication (Forthcoming 2021) 104 SCLR (2d) Abstract Joe Arvay sometimes described his work as a lawyer as being a “plumber with words”. We think what he meant was that he strived to offer tangible solutions to concrete problems.
A Panel in Memory of Joseph J. Arvay, OC, QC | 24th Annual Constitutional Cases Conference
Title A Panel in Memory of Joseph J.
"Constitutional Conversations" by Alison M. Latimer
Osgoode Home > Osgoode Digital Commons > Journals > SCLR > Vol. 88 (2019) Abstract This paper examines two cases that raise questions about the capacity to secure redress for the limitation of Charter rights through litigation. It gives expression to a certain litigation fatigue stemming from processes of litigation and then legislative or practice reform that at times feel dysfunctional.
The Supreme Court Law Review: Osgoode’s Annual Constitutional Cases Conference
It has been more than a decade since Justice Arbour’s dissenting judgment in Gosselin, the first and only Supreme Court of Canada judgment recognizing positive rights under section 7. The jurisprudence that has developed in the intervening years presents some challenges to pursuing such a claim today.
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