neutrality
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Motte and Bailey Unreasonableness
There is much to learn from a recent English decision on police impartiality Continue reading
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Textualism for Hedgehogs
Why substantive canons belong in textualist interpretation, and what this tells us about neutral interpretive principles Continue reading
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Neutrality in Legal Interpretation
Nowadays, it is unfashionable to say that legal rules, particularly rules of interpretation, should be “neutral.” Quite the opposite: now it is more fashionable to say that results in cases depend on the “politics” of a court on a particular day. Against this modern trend, not so long ago, it was Herbert Wechsler in his Continue reading
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What’s Left of Freedom?
In the Trinity Western cases, the Supreme Court eviscerates religious liberty in Canada Continue reading
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A Hard Case
Thoughts on the Supreme Court’s dismissal of a religious freedom claim based on Aboriginal beliefs Continue reading
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An Easy Case
Why funding Catholic schools on terms not available to others is an obvious infringement of religious freedom Continue reading
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No Money for You
Can Saskatchewan fund non-Catholic students in Catholic schools? Raising government ire, a court says no. Continue reading
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Follow Instructions
School prayer is unconstitutional ― even in Alberta and Saskatchewan A couple of months ago, Benjamin Oliphant wrote, on the Policy Options blog, about a controversy over school prayer in Alberta: some schools still start their days with the Lord’s Prayer, which some parents oppose. Constitutionally, Mr. Oliphant pointed out, the matter is somewhat complicated. A Continue reading
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Inutile ou inconstitutionnel?
En plus de s’attaquer à la liberté d’expression et à la primauté du droit avec leur projet de loi 59, le gouvernement du Québec et la ministre de la justice, Stéphanie Vallée, s’attaquent peut-être aussi à la liberté de religion avec le projet de loi 62. Peut-être, car ce texte législatif contient une exception qui pourrait en Continue reading
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What to Thump
This morning the Supreme Court heard the oral argument in Mouvement laïque québécois v. Saguenay (Ville de), a case on the validity, under the Québec Charter of Human Rights and Freedoms of a municipal by-law authorizing the mayor and those municipal councillors who wish it to publicly read a prayer just prior to the official Continue reading
Double Aspect 