Fair Voting BC v. Canada (Attorney General) (2025)
Ontario Court of Appeal
CLAIHR filed intervener submissions concerning the relevance of international human rights law to equality rights under s. 15 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms and equal participation in political life.
Ontario (Attorney General) v. Working Families Coalition (Canada) Inc. (2025)
Supreme Court of Canada
CLAIHR filed interver submissions in Ontario (Attorney General) v. Working Families Coalition (Canada) Inc., 2025 SCC 5, a Charter Challenge to the spending limits on political advertising by third parties.
Société des casinos du Québec inc. v. Association des cadres de la Société des casinos du Québec (2024)
Supreme Court of Canada
CLAIHR intervened concerning Canada's international labour and human rights obligations and the relevance of an international treaty body's findings to freedom of association under s. 2(d) of the Charter.
CLAIHR, jointly with Disability Alliance BC, intervened to argue that the interpretation of theAdult Guardianship Act adopted by the British Columbia Provincial Court was inconsistent with Canada’s international human rights obligations.
Canadian Council for Refugees v. Canada (Citizenship and Immigration) (2022)
Supreme Court of Canada
CLAIHR and the Canadian Centre for Victims of Torture jointly addressed Canada's international refugee and human rights obligations and the constitutionality of the Safe Third Country Agreement regime.
CLAIHR and the International Justice and Human Rights Clinic at the University of Ottawa jointly addressed customary and treaty international law and its relevance to domestic statutory interpretation and administrative decision-making.
Ontario Superior Court of Justice, Divisional Court
CLAIHR intervened in a migrant farmworkers housing case concerning the relevance of international human rights instruments to Ontario public-health legislation affecting migrant agricultural workers.
CLAIHR and Palestinian human rights organization, Al-Haq, intervened in this case which considered how Canada should engage with illegal Israeli settlements in the Palestinian territory of the West Bank.
CLAIHR intervened in this case which determined whether foreign state officials have immunity from civil lawsuits in Canada for acts of torture committed outside the country under the State Immunity Act.
CLAIHR and the Canadian Centre for International Justice addressed the international law foundations and interpretation of the Crimes Against Humanity and War Crimes Act.
CLAIHR together with Amnesty International and the Canadian Centre for International Justice considered whether a Canadian court could hear a case when then the defendant was located outside of Canada at the time the harm was suffered.
