Preface To the Fifth Edition

• Author: Hon. Robert J. Sharpe, Kent Roach
• Pages: 17-17

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PR EFACE

To the Fifth Edition

There have been many signif‌ica nt developments in Charter juri spru-

dence since the publication of the fourth edition four years ago. The

Supreme Court has revisited fund amental issues concerning the inter-

pretation of freedom of association; equal ity rights; and the reach of the

protection accorded life, liberty, and security of the person. There have

also been signi f‌icant developments with regard to freedom of expres -

sion, freedom of religion and its relationship with t he fair trial rights of

the accused. The Supreme Court has also c larif‌ied the test for awarding

damages under section 24(1) of the Charter. We have done our best to

ref‌lect these and other developments in thi s edition.

We thank Lauren Epstein for her excellent research a ssistance, and

Sooin Kim and others at the Bora L askin Law Libra ry. We also thank

our publisher, Jeff Miller, for his conf‌idence and support, Kate Reving-

ton and Alisa Posesorski for their c areful editing, and t he staff at Irw in

Law for all their help in the production of this edition.