October 18 commemorates the case of Edwards v. Canada which decided women are eligible to sit in the Senate of Canada and that they are indeed included under the term ‘persons’.
This constitutional case was decided on October 18, 1929, by the Judicial Committee of the Imperial Privy Council, which at the time was the highest court of appeal.
The decision also helped recognize that the constitution should be interpreted in a way that adapts to a changing culture.
Print Resources in the Library
Gender equality in the courts : criminal law : a study by the Manitoba Association of Women and the Law / editor, Mona G. Brown
Women, the law, and the economy / editors, E. Diane Pask, Kathleen E. Mahoney, Catherine A. Brown
Women in Canadian law
International decade for women, 1976-1985
The law is not for women
Reasoning with the Charter
The Supreme Court’s first one hundred Charter of Rights decisions : a statistical analysis / F.L. Morton, Peter H. Russell and Michael Withey
The Charter of Rights in litigation : direction from the Supreme Court of Canada / David Stratas
The newly re-elected provincial government delivered the speech from the throne this morning:
The speech highlighted key government commitments including: • completing necessary legislative requirements in order to fully implement the measures outlined in Budget 2019; • continuing to work to make Manitoba more economically competitive by reducing regulatory red tape and encouraging innovation; • completing the implementation of the New West Partnership Trade Agreement; • addressing addictions and public safety issues; and • making strategic investments to strengthen front-line health, education and social services.
[Guest author Sarah Sutherland. Cross-posted from The CanLII Blog.]
Over 9,500 decisions from the Manitoba Reports have been added to CanLII!
CanLII is grateful to have received a grant from the Manitoba Law Foundation to add decisions from the first and second series of the Manitoba Reports to CanLII.org.
For the last year we have been doing research into what gaps there are in legal research for jurisdictions across Canada. In Manitoba we discovered that there was a gap in access to historical caselaw for the province. Following this we applied for a grant to help fill that gap.
We have added around 4,500 decisions from the first series and 5,000 from the second series of the Manitoba Reports. You can find them on CanLII using this search query.
Thank you to Karen Dyck, Erin Wilcott, and the staff at the Manitoba Law Foundation for making this grant possible, and Karen Sawatzky at the Manitoba Law Library for helping us identify local needs.
The Manitoba Law Library would like to acknowledge with gratitude that we are situated on Treaty One Territory, the traditional lands of the Anishinaabe, Cree and Dakota peoples, and the homeland of the Métis Nation.
Printing and Photocopying
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PLEASE NOTE:The Manitoba Law Library will be closed Monday,September 30th, 2024 for the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation. Regular library service will resume Tuesday,October 1st, 2024 at 8:30AM.
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