Women's Legal Education and Action Fund
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Women's Legal Education and Action Fund, popularly known as LEAF, is a Canadian legal organization that performs legal research and intervenes in appellate and Supreme Court cases on women's issues. Founded in 1984, LEAF has been an intervener in many of the most significant Charter decisions of the Supreme Court.
[edit] Notable interventions
- Little Sisters Book and Art Emporium v. Canada (Minister of Justice), [2000] 2 S.C.R. 1120
- British Columbia (PSERC) v. BCGSEU [1999] 3 S.C.R. 3
- M. v. H., [1999] 2 S.C.R. 3
- Eldridge v. British Columbia (Attorney General), [1997] 3 S.C.R. 624
- Weatherall v. Canada (Attorney General), [1993] 2 S.C.R. 872
- R. v. Butler, [1992] 1 S.C.R. 452
- Canadian Council of Churches v. Canada (Minister of Employment and Immigration), [1992] 1 S.C.R. 236
- Norberg v. Wynrib, [1992] 2 S.C.R. 224
- R. v. Sullivan, [1991] 1 S.C.R. 489
- Brooks v. Canada Safeway Ltd., [1989] 1 S.C.R. 1219
- Andrews v. Law Society of British Columbia, [1989] 1 S.C.R. 143
