POLS 3130 Chapter Notes - Chapter 18-21: Tacitus, Therapeutic Abortion Committee, Fetus
17 Apr 2013
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Chapter 18 return to the supreme court. On october 7th, 1986, morgentaler returned to the scc. The court was now well on its way into charter land and bore only a faint resemblance to the self-restrained court that had cautiously avoided the abortion issue and sent morgentaler to prison a decade earlier. A bold new path of judicial activism was being carved out by the court. In its first 22 decisions regarding the charter, the scc had ruled in favour of the individual. No case better exemplified the court"s new course of judicial activism than its decision in big m. Drug mart v. the queen; the scc ruled that the sunday-closing requirements of the federal. Lords day act violated the freedom of religion provision in the charter (this overruled the scc. Bill of rights precedent regarding robertson and rosetanni v. the queen)
