Dignity and Equality: Law’s Reasonable Claimant and Human Dignity under Section 15

The concept of human dignity is an essential and inextricable element of equality rights. In Law v. Canada the Supreme Court united around the concept of dignity to determine section 15(1) cases. This test was abandoned in R v. Kapp, deciding that dignity was too abstract and subjective. This paper...

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Main Author: Symes, Karen
Other Authors: Reaume, Denise
Language:en_ca
Published: 2011
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1807/31448