Citations [1998] 3 S.C.R. 157 Ruling Appeal allowed | Docket No. 25192 Docket number 25,192 | |
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Full case name Canadian Egg Marketing Agency v. Pineview Poultry Products Ltd. and Frank Richardson operating as Northern Poultry Prior history Judgment against the Canadian Egg Marketing Agency in the Court of Appeal for the Northwest Territories. Majority Iacobucci and Bastarache JJ., joined by Lamer C.J. and L’Heureux-Dubé, Gonthier, Cory, and Binnie JJ. | ||
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.
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