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Record Nr.

UNINA9910955705803321

Autore

Brodie Ian (Ian Ross)

Titolo

Friends of the court : the privileging of interest group litigants in Canada / / Ian Brodie

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Albany, : State University of New York Press, c2002

ISBN

9780791488966

0791488969

9780585463988

0585463980

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource  (xxi, 161 pages)

Collana

SUNY series in American constitutionalism

Disciplina

342.71/0854

Soggetti

Citizen suits (Civil procedure) - Canada

Public interest law - Canada

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front Matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- The Political Disadvantage Theory -- Interveners at the Supreme Court of Canada -- Interest Group Litigation and Judicial Supremacy -- The Market for Section 15 Status -- Political Disadvantage and State Action -- Postscript and Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

"In this book-length study of interest group litigation in Canada, Friends of the Court traces the Canadian Supreme Court's ever-changing relationship with interest groups since the 1970s. After explaining how the Court was pressured to welcome more interest groups in the late 1980s, Brodie introduces a new theory of political status describing how the Court privileges certain groups over others. By uncovering the role of the state in encouraging and facilitating litigation, this book challenges the idea that interest group litigation in Canada is a grassroots phenomenon."--Jacket