Monday, August 15, 2005

I read the extract of Andrews v. Law Society of British Columbia.

This case Andrews v. Law Society of British Columbia [1989] 1. S.C.R. 143 aff'g. (1986), 27 D.L.R. (4th) 600 (B.C.C.A.), rev'g. (1985), 66 22 D.L.R. (4th) 9 (B.C.S.C.) really taught me a thing or two. I took the view that a British citizen in Canada is not at a disadvantage and thus no discrimination had occured. But now realise that any immigrant is disadvantaged and thus there was discrimination on this case. I also learned this idea of analogous grounds and the various steps concerning how one jumps around sections of the Charter to decided an equality case that involves section 15.

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