The 26th iteration of the Constitutional Cases conference was held on Friday, April 14, 2023. Osgoode Hall Law School’s Annual Constitutional Cases Conference, recognized as the leading constitutional law conference in Canada, brings together many highly respected constitutional scholars, lawyers, students, and experts for an insightful and practical analysis of the Supreme Court’s significant constitutional judgments of the past year.

Panel A | Access to Justice
Panelists will consider issues of public interest standing, including questions of justiciability, genuine interest, and reasonable and effective means. They will consider broader issues on the intersection between rules of civil procedure and the administration of justice, and access to the justice through a disability rights lens.

Panelists:
00:03:03 Professor Gerard Kennedy, UManitoba Faculty of Law
00:18:30 Elin Sigurdson, Mandell Pinder LLP
00:36:50 Professor Tess Sheldon, UWindsor Faculty of Law, Karen R. Spector, Barrister & Solicitor, and Professor Ruby Dhand, Faculty of Law, Thompson Rivers University

Chair: Professor Faisal Bhabha, Osgoode Hall Law School