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The federal law commission was preceded by the Ontario Law Reform Commission, which was created in 1964. [2] In 1966, the Canadian Bar Association passed a resolution at its annual meeting calling for the creation of a federal law reform commission. [2] On February 16, 1970, the then Liberal Minister of Justice John Turner introduced Bill C-186 ...
The Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario (French: Tribunal des droits de la personne de l’Ontario) is an administrative tribunal in Ontario, Canada that hears and determines applications brought under the Ontario Human Rights Code, the provincial statute that sets out human or civil rights in Ontario prohibiting discrimination on the basis of a number of grounds (such as race, sex or disability ...
The Human Rights Code is a statute in the Canadian province of Ontario that guarantees equality before the law and prohibits discrimination in specific social areas such as housing or employment. The code's goal specifically prohibits discrimination based on race, colour, gender identity or expression, sex, sexual orientation, disability, creed ...
The Ontario Human Rights Commission ( OHRC) was established in the Canadian province of Ontario on March 29, 1961, to administer the Ontario Human Rights Code. The OHRC is an arm's length agency of government accountable to the legislature through the Ministry of the Attorney General of Ontario . The OHRC's mandate under the Code includes ...
2 Bloor St. W., Suite 2100. Toronto, Ontario. Office executive. J. David Wake, Commissioner. Website. oico.on.ca. The Office of the Integrity Commissioner (French: Bureau du commissaire à l’intégrité) for the province of Ontario is the office of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario responsible for preventing ethics violations before they ...
Osgoode Hall Law School, commonly shortened to Osgoode, is the law school of York University in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is home to the Law Commission of Ontario, the Journal of Law and Social Policy, and the Osgoode Hall Law Journal. A variety of LL.M. and Ph.D. degrees in law are available. The law school's alumni include three Canadian ...
Abella has acted as chair of the Ontario Labour Relations Board, the Ontario Study into Access to Legal Services by the Disabled and the Ontario Law Reform Commission, and as a member of the Ontario Human Rights Commission and of the judicial inquiry into the Donald Marshall, Jr. case. From 1988 to 1992, she taught at McGill University Faculty ...
A law commission, law reform commission, or law revision commission is an independent body set up by a government to conduct law reform; that is, to consider the state of laws in a jurisdiction and make recommendations or proposals for legal changes or restructuring. The first term is prevalent in the United Kingdom, the second is prevalent in ...