Cases
Socio-economic rights
Eric v. Lola (SCC)
LEAF has been granted leave to intervene and present oral argument in this appeal. The case involves a s.15 equality rights Charter challenge to the exclusion of de facto (common law) spouses from the articles of the Québec Civil Code (“CCQ”) Book on the Family which provide for spousal support, sharing of property and rights [...]
DBS v. SRG
The landmark Supreme Court of Canada case DBS v. SRG concerns the issue of child support and the entitlement of recipient spouses, predominantly mothers, to increased child support following an increase in the income of payer spouses, who are predominantly fathers. The jurisprudence that has developed around retroactive child support has developed inconsistently across the [...]
