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The Charter of Rights & Freedoms, third edition
Irwin Law

Published: 29/08/2005
350 pages (PB)
9 x 6
1552211088
$48.00

The Charter of Rights & Freedoms, third edition

Hon. Robert J. Sharpe, Hon. Katherine E. Swinton, & Kent Roach

No other Canadian book provides such an accessible yet thorough and objective account of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. The text has been thoroughly updated to reflect Charter jurisprudence since publication of the second edition in 2002. It covers the history of the Charter, legitimacy of judicial review, limitation of Charter rights, Charter litigation, language rights, equality rights, and Charter rights of the criminally accused.

Subjects: Law, Politics

Table of Contents:
Summary Table of Contents

Foreword to the First Edition
by the Honourable Mr. Justice Frank Iacobucci

Preface
Introduction
CHAPTER 1: Historical Context
CHAPTER 2: The Legitimacy of Judicial Review
CHAPTER 3: Interpretation of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms
CHAPTER 4: Limitation of Charter Rights
CHAPTER 5: The Legislative Override
CHAPTER 6: Application
CHAPTER 7: CharterLitigation
CHAPTER 8: Freedom of Conscience and Religion
CHAPTER 9: Freedom of Expression
CHAPTER 10: Freedom of Association
CHAPTER 11: Democratic Rights
CHAPTER 12: Mobility Rights
CHAPTER 13: Life, Liberty, and Security of the Person and the Principles of Fundamental Justice
CHAPTER 14: Charter Rights in the Criminal Process
CHAPTER 15: Equality
CHAPTER 16: Language Rights
CHAPTER 17: Remedies

Conclusion
Glossary
Constitution Acts, 1982
Table of Cases
Index

A legal text from Irwin Law's popular Essentials of Canadian Law series.