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Russell v. The King

The Tax Court struck specified paragraphs of the Amended Notice of Appeal, holding they alleged CRA misconduct, Charter breaches, and relief outside its jurisdiction.

  • Motion-to-strike
  • Jurisdiction-of-the-tax-court-of-canada
  • Reasonable-grounds-for-appeal
  • Procedural-fairness
  • Abuse-of-process
  • Section-7-charter
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Tort 2026 FC 512

Stewart v. Canada

The Federal Court found a correctional officer used unjustified force against Kelsey Stewart, causing facial injuries. It awarded $50,000 for battery and $15,000 for Charter vindication.

  • Use-of-force
  • Battery
  • Section-7-charter
  • Section-12-charter
  • Vicarious-liability
  • Damages-assessment
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Constitutional-law 2025 ONCA 908

Cycle Toronto v. Ontario (Attorney General)

The Court of Appeal for Ontario granted several motions to intervene in a Charter appeal about bicycle lanes, limiting each intervener to specific issues and set page and oral argument limits.

  • Section-7-charter
  • Positive-vs-negative-rights
  • Intervention-as-friend-of-the-court
  • Principles-of-fundamental-justice
  • Gross-disproportionality
  • Best-interests-of-the-child-(uncrc)
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Military-law 2025 CMAC 3

R. v. Allison

The Court Martial Appeal Court dismissed Doug Allison’s appeal, holding that military jurisdiction and prosecution for impaired driving abroad were lawful and did not violate s. 7.

  • Jurisdiction
  • Prosecutorial-discretion
  • Section-7-charter
  • Extraterritorial-application-of-criminal-law
  • Code-of-service-discipline
  • Charter-section-7
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Immigration-law 2025 FC 1614

Cardenas v. Canada (Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness)

The Federal Court set aside an officer’s refusal to defer removal, finding the Applicants were entitled to a timely fresh risk assessment before removal.

  • Deferral-of-removal
  • Pre-removal-risk-assessment-(prra)
  • Humanitarian-and-compassionate-(h&c)-applications
  • Section-7-charter-rights
  • State-protection
  • Timeliness-of-risk-assessment
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Constitutional-law 2025 FC 1586

Lho'Imggin v. Canada

The Federal Court struck a climate-change Charter claim for insufficient pleading, but granted leave to amend because the defects appeared curable.

  • Section-7-charter
  • Justiciability
  • Customary-international-law
  • Climate-change-obligations
  • Pleading-standards
  • Motion-to-strike
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Aboriginal-law 2025 BCSC 1498

Neal v. Canada (Attorney General)

The court certified an Indigenous child welfare class action alleging systemic negligence, Charter breaches, fiduciary duty, and unjust enrichment, and rejected certification-stage immunity bars.

  • Millennium-scoop
  • Jordan's-principle
  • Section-7-charter
  • Section-15-charter
  • Systemic-negligence
  • Certification-under-cpa
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Administrative-law 2025 FC 1337

Tetreault v. Canada (Attorney General)

The Federal Court dismissed Serge Tetreault’s judicial review as moot after finding the challenged CAF vaccination directive no longer had practical effect.

  • Mootness
  • Section-7-charter
  • Judicial-review
  • Admissibility-of-evidence
  • Scope-of-grievance-review
  • Procedural-requirements
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Constitutional-law 2025 BCSC 1342

Jonckeau v. British Columbia (Attorney General)

The court struck a Charter-based claim over out-of-province health funding, holding the pleadings did not disclose a reasonable s. 7 claim and no leave to amend was granted.

  • Section-7-charter
  • Positive-obligations-to-provide-health-funding
  • Out-of-province-medical-funding
  • Medical-wait-lists-and-triage
  • Rule-9-5-striking-pleadings
  • Medical-wait-lists
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Constitutional-law 2025 FC 849

Nasogaluak v. Canada (Attorney General)

The Federal Court partly granted a discovery-motion in a certified class proceeding, requiring limited production of use-of-force and related RCMP records from specified dates.

  • Section-15-charter-adverse-impact
  • Section-7-charter
  • Discovery-plan-and-document-production
  • Proportionality-in-discovery
  • Limitation-periods
  • Use-of-force-data
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