The Court and the Charter: Leading Cases, Third Edition

Canada’s Constitution cannot be understood without a thorough foundation in the judicial interpretation of its provisions and principles.This collection of leading decisions by the relevant high courts - the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council until 1949 and the Supreme Court of Canada thereafter - provides that grounding.The third edition of this seminal text is updated to include the most salient, enduring, and influential high court decisions to date.It introduces students to trends and nuances in jurisprudence affecting the major dimensions of the Canadian Constitution, including the federal division of powers, the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, Indigenous rights, and constitutional change.Each of the 58 decisions in this collection features an introductory essay and discussion questions .The book contains a comprehensive essay on the institutional and historical determinants of judicial interpretation of the Constitution and a bibliography for further reading.Readers