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Legal name change

Case

Description

Year

Facta

Vital Statistics Acts challenges

LEAF supported challenges to the Vital Statistics Acts in Ontario, British Columbia, and Prince Edward Island that prohibited married women to give their children maternal surnames...

1986

none

Bertrand, Suzanne and the Yukon Change of Name Act

The Yukon Supreme Court struck down a section of the Change of Name Act which denied married women the right to change their surnames...

1985

none