Tomorrow, the Supreme Court of Canada hears a challenge to the federal criminal law prohibition on assisted suicide: Carter v. Canada. This law was upheld narrowly in 1993 (Rodriguez v. British Columbia (Attorney General), [1993] 3 SCR 519), but the Court is being asked to take a fresh look in light of changed circumstances. For […] Read more

In late 2011, the Canadian federal government suffered a defeat at the Supreme Court of Canada. In Canada (Attorney General) v. PHS Community Services Society, 2011 SCC 44, [2011] 3 SCR 134, the government was ordered to give an exemption from the application of criminal prohibitions on drug possession to a safe injection site called […] Read more