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SUMMARY:Panel discussion on the Trinity Western University Appeals
DESCRIPTION:On November 30th and December 1st 2017\, the Supreme Court of Canada will hear two appeals involving Trinity Western University (TWU)\, a private Christian university in British Columbia wishing to open a new law school.  The appeals involve legal challenges to decisions by the law societies of British Columbia and Ontario and the impact of a policy that requires TWU students to sign a code of conduct forbidding sexual intimacy outside heterosexual marriage. Ontario decided to deny the accreditation of TWU law graduates in the future\, while BC approved accreditation. The cases are expected to “break new constitutional ground” around how administrative decision-makers are to balance the competing Charter rights of equality and freedom of religion. \nThe David Asper Centre for Constitutional Rights\, Out in Law\, The Journal of Law and Equality and the Dean’s Emerging Issues Workshop Series are delighted to jointly present a panel discussion on November 23\, 2017 at 12h30 to consider and analyse some of the main issues that will be covered in these appeals\, including the administrative law matters\, the balancing of competing rights and the unique circumstances involving the involvement of public interest interveners at the Supreme Court. \n\n\n\n\nPanelists: Professor Richard Stacey (UofT Law)\, Professor Denise Reaume (UofT Law)\, Professor Richard Moon (Windsor Law) and Cheryl Milne (Executive Director of the Asper Centre\, UofT Law). The Panel will be moderated by Maryam Shahid (UofT Law JD Candidate and Co-Editor of the Journal of Law and Equality). \nA pizza lunch will be provided.
URL:https://aspercentre.ca/event/panel-discussion-on-the-trinity-western-university-case/
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SUMMARY:Constitutional Roundtable: Alistair Price
DESCRIPTION:  Asper Centre Constitutional Roundtable\npresents\nALISTAIR PRICE\nAssociate Professor in Law\, University of Cape Town\n“The Relationship between Constitutional and Tort Damages for State Failures to Protect in Canada\, England\, and South Africa”\n Moderated by:\nAssistant Professor Richard Stacey\nUniversity of Toronto Faculty of Law\nWednesday\, November 29\, 2017\n12:30 – 2:00\nSolarium (Room FA2)\, Falconer Hall\n84 Queen’s Park\nCanada\, England\, and South Africa face a similar challenge arising from their shared Diceyan heritage in public law. On the one hand\, public bodies and officials in these jurisdictions are bound by the ordinary law of the land applied by ordinary courts\, including the private law of tort. On the other hand\, the state also owes positive obligations to provide a range of services and protections to members of the public that individuals do not bear\, arising from constitutional and administrative law. Where the state breaches its distinctive responsibilities by failing to protect an individual\, who as a result is harmed and seeks recompense\, a question arises as to the proper law to apply. What then is the relationship between the state’s duties and liabilities in tort and constitutional law? The three legal systems under consideration have answered this question in subtly different ways. The English courts have been unwilling to adjust private law to take account of the state’s special duties. In tort law\, public defendants are held to the same standards as private individuals\, who are liable for omissions only exceptionally. State liability for breach of positive duties to protect human rights arises instead under the Human Rights Act 1998\, where courts have a discretion to award compensation alongside declarations and other public-law remedies. South Africa\, by contrast\, has to a large extent fused private law and constitutional law in this context. Novel private law duties and liabilities may be grounded on the need to hold the state accountable for breaching positive constitutional duties. As a result\, the standalone remedy of constitutional damages is comparatively underdeveloped. Canada\, it appears to me\, has avoided both extremes: the courts have developed a narrow range of uniquely public duties of care in tort while also recognising that constitutional damages may be just and appropriate to compensate loss\, vindicate rights\, or deter Charter violations where tort (and other) remedies are insufficient. These varying responses to a shared challenge bring the following issue into sharp focus: to what extent can and should tort law be instrumentalised to serve the social goals of constitutional law? \nAlistair Price is an Associate Professor in the Department of Private Law at the University of Cape Town (UCT). He received a BBusSc (distinction) and LLB (magna cum laude) from UCT\, a Bachelor of Civil Law (distinction) from University College\, Oxford\, and a PhD from Gonville and Caius College\, Cambridge. His thesis was entitled The Influence of Human Rights on State Negligence Liability in England and South Africa and\, in 2014\, he was awarded a prestigious Yorke Prize by the Cambridge Law Faculty for making ‘a substantial contribution’ to knowledge. Before his appointment at UCT\, he worked as a research clerk for Chief Justice Pius Langa at the Constitutional Court of South Africa and as a research assistant to Professor Reinhard Zimmermann at the Max Planck Institute for Private Law in Hamburg\, and taught tort law for several colleges at Cambridge University. Research interests: the law of obligations (primarily delict/tort); constitutional and administrative law; comparative law. \nA light lunch will be provided. \nFor more information\, please contact Nadia Gulezko at n.gulezko@utoronto.ca. \n 
URL:https://aspercentre.ca/event/constitutional-roundtable-alistair-price/
LOCATION:Jackman Law Building Room J140\, 78 Queen’s Park
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SUMMARY:Asper Centre Public Interest Litigation Conference: Call for Papers DUE DATE
DESCRIPTION:The David Asper Centre for Constitutional Rights is pleased to invite abstract submissions for our upcoming Public Interest Litigation Conference\, which will be  held on March 2\, 2018.  The Conference will be focused on legal strategies for successful public interest litigation in Canada\, as a means to bring together relevant stakeholders to share their challenges\, successes and strategies in this field. \nPlease find below the call for papers.  We invite proposals for papers in 2 formats: a longer paper covering pertinent issues related to public interest litigation in Canada and a shorter paper focused on lessons learned from a specific public interest case.  We hope that together these streams will generate positive response among both practitioners (lawyers and NGOs) who are engaged in public interest litigation and scholars who study and analyze the impact of these cases. \nAs indicated in the call for papers\, please submit proposals to tal.schreier@utoronto.ca by November 30\, 2017. \nWe look forward to receiving your applications and to hosting you in March! \nSincerely\,\nThe David Asper Centre for Constitutional Rights \nPublic Interest Litigation Conference – CALL FOR PAPERS
URL:https://aspercentre.ca/event/public-interest-litigation-conference-call-for-papers-due-date/
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