LEAF and West Coast LEAF are going to the Supreme Court to ensure that child support orders centre women and children’s substantive equality rights!

Our intervention in Colucci v. Colucci is scheduled to be argued at the Supreme Court of Canada in Ottawa on Wednesday, November 4, at 9:30am EST. LEAF and West Coast LEAF propose a legal framework for child support orders that takes as its starting point the reality that unpaid child support contributes to the feminization of poverty. By centering women and children’s substantive equality rights, the framework that we propose would ensure that judges’ child support orders are fair. 

You are most welcome to watch the oral arguments on November 4th by webcast (please click on the hyperlink).  

In coalition with DisAbled Women’s Network of Canada (DAWN) and ARCH Disability Law Centre (ARCH), LEAF is going to the Supreme Court to advocate for better access to justice for women labelled with intellectual disabilities who are complainants in sexual assault trials.

Our intervention in R. v. Slatter is scheduled to be argued at the Supreme Court of Canada in Ottawa on Friday, November 6, at 9:30am EST. The LEAF-DAWN-ARCH coalition will argue that a substantive equality analysis requires the Court to make credibility assessments based on the actual abilities and individual circumstances of women with disabilities, as opposed to generalizations about disabilities.

You are most welcome to watch the oral arguments on November 6th by webcast (please click on the hyperlink).