Windsor Yearbook of Access to Justice  

Laverne Jacobs

The Windsor Yearbook of Access to Justice is proud to publish issue 32 (1). This issue features a special section highlighting the scholarship of graduate students. While it is always a pleasure to read promising work by newer scholars in the fields of la... see more

Jodi Lazare

This article draws on the Supreme Court of British Columbia’s Reference re: Section 293 of the Criminal Code of Canada [the Polygamy Reference] as a concrete example of the benefits and limitations of intense judicial reliance on social science evidence i... see more

David DesBaillets

The case of Tanudjaja v. Attorney General, represents an unprecedented opportunity for Canadian legal scholars to examine the right to adequate housing in the Canadian human rights context. It is the only legal challenge that broaches directly the right t... see more

Nandini Ramanujam, Miatta Gorvie

Members of civil society are increasingly decrying what they identify as an insidious trend whereby the government is targeting organizations whose mandates run contrary to the federal government’s political and economic agendas and creating a chill aroun... see more

Shelley McGill

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Lydia Stewart Ferreira

The health tribunal process is assumed to be neutral and allow for the tribunal’s focus to be on the parties’ legal arguments. This study quantitatively examined approximately 400 decisions over a five-year period to determine whether or not health tribun... see more

Blair Major

In this article, the author argues against the balancing approach used in the recent case of the Supreme Court of Canada R v NS (2012).  It is argued that this approach inhibits critical reflection on the complex philosophical issues that underlie the dec... see more

Jonathan Solomon

Growing childhood obesity rates are increasingly putting the lives of Canadian children at risk. Using schools as the foundation for tackling childhood obesity is significantly more achievable than attempting to place blanket measures that intrude into Ca... see more

Jennifer Raso

This article proposes an integration approach to realize human rights values within administrative agencies.  Using social assistance as a factual context, it examines how rights enforcement has become the dominant mechanism for reforming government benef... see more