Law 2101 Lecture 10: Canadian Human Rights Law
19 Apr 2018
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Similarity between human rights and charter: protects equality (both concerned, charter- government factors. Contract law- sig restriction on freedom of contract. Human rights legislation and employment contracts and collective agreements (implied terms) (parry sound) First identify relevant sphere if want to bring a case. Must identify a sphere of life (employment is one of them) Discrimination on pregnancy sex discrimination perceives someone as having a disability when they don"t results in discrimination. Formal equality: everyone gets the same box (cid:523)picture(cid:524). Substantive equality: people have different starting points in their lives; to treat people equally have to treat differently (same view of the game) Premma facia: at first glance (on the surface of it) (discrimination) Exam questions: they were members, but after being asked they believed it was due to racial discrimination, claimed she knew everyone else in facility were members, but one wasn"t (cid:523)white man(cid:524)
