Arguments, authorities, and strategy for advancing social and economic rights in Canadian courts.
A practical guide to invoking the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights as an aid to interpreting the Charter, with citations to leading Supreme Court of Canada authority.
Read the chapter →Section 7 and section 15 frameworks for social and economic rights claims.
Using ICESCR, treaty body decisions, and Special Rapporteur reports in domestic litigation.
Public-interest standing and the response to Tanudjaja.
Declarations, supervisory orders, and structural relief in social-rights cases.
Building the social-condition record: experts, surveys, lived experience.
Costs in public-interest litigation and arguments against adverse-cost orders.