Feminist Judgment Projects: Canada

The Women’s Court of Canada

A collection of Canadian lawyers and activists critiqued the equality jurisprudence under section 15 of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms. Their six rewritten judgments as a superior Court to the Supreme Court of Canada were published in 2006, vol 18(1) of the Canadian Journal of Women and the Law.

Available Extracts:

Reviews:

Commentary/Other resources:

  • Interview with the Women’s Court of Canada, 9 March 2008 on CBC Radio, The Sunday Edition

  • Women’s Court of Canada, ‘Women’s Court of Canada: Future Directions’ (Planning Document, Rewriting Equality Meeting, 2008)

  • Professor Koshan gave a seminar at the Centre for Law, Gender and Sexuality at the University of Kent in 2015. In this podcast, she discusses a draft feminist judgment of a spousal sexual assault case in the Canadian Supreme Court (R v JA [2011] SCC 28). The feminist judgment itself can be read here.