Yavar Hameed

Holding the police to account for violating your Charter rights is an onerous process that is frustrated by systemic barriers that require a potential Plaintiff to be strategic in their approach. While it may appear that it is impossible to ever obtain justice through the civil process of redress, the existence of obstacles does not mean that civil litigation cannot be run effectively.

A floor sticker recommending social distancing at a London Drugs store in Vancouver. Photo from Flickr. In the midst of the disorienting crisis that is COVID-19, “social distancing” has taken hold as a political imperative and public health mantra in Canada and around the world. The pragmatism of this policy serves simultaneously to protect us from the risk of disease and to reduce the potential that we ourselves may act as vectors of transmission.

Nearly 20 years later, the legal and boxing battle is a feature film, with Mickey Rourke playing the role of the grizzled trainer and actor Prem Singh as Nagra, who fought to box with a full beard, which is an article of his Sikh faith. Lawyers Satwinder Gosal, Jim Smith and Chris Leafloor, who obtained a last-minute Ontario Superior Court injunction in December 1999 to permit Nagra to fight in the national championships without shaving his beard, are not portrayed in the film.