Canadian Egg Marketing Agency v Richardson
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Canadian Egg Marketing Agency v Richardson, [1998] 3 S.C.R. 157 is a decision of the Supreme Court of Canada on standing to challenge a law as a violation of the Constitution of Canada. The Court expanded the exception first established in R. v. Big M Drug Mart to allow corporations to invoke the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms in civil litigation. The corporation had claimed rights to freedom of association and freedom of movement under section 2(d) and section 6 of the Charter.
Canadian Egg Marketing Agency v Richardson | |
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Hearing: March 19, 1998 Judgment: November 5, 1998 | |
Full case name | Canadian Egg Marketing Agency v. Pineview Poultry Products Ltd. and Frank Richardson operating as Northern Poultry |
Citations | [1998] 3 S.C.R. 157 |
Docket No. | 25192 [1] |
Prior history | Judgment against the Canadian Egg Marketing Agency in the Court of Appeal for the Northwest Territories. |
Ruling | Appeal allowed |
Holding | |
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Court membership | |
Chief Justice: Antonio Lamer Puisne Justices: Claire L'Heureux-Dubé, Charles Gonthier, Peter Cory, Beverley McLachlin, Frank Iacobucci, John C. Major, Michel Bastarache, Ian Binnie | |
Reasons given | |
Majority | Iacobucci and Bastarache JJ., joined by Lamer C.J. and L'Heureux-Dubé, Gonthier, Cory, and Binnie JJ. |
Dissent | McLachlin J., joined by Major J. |
See also
editExternal links
edit- Full text of Supreme Court of Canada decision at LexUM and CanLII
- ^ SCC Case Information - Docket 25192 Supreme Court of Canada