A select number of decisions from the superior and inferior courts that have proven to be the leading case law in a number of fields and have subsequently been influential in other provinces, or else they are famous decisions in their own right. These include trial court cases. Typically, these decisions were merely affirmed at the appellate level or were never appealed. Other cases were appeals to courts besides the provincial Court of Appeal or the Supreme Court of Canada. The decisions are listed in chronological order. * ''

Abortion trial of Emily Stowe The abortion trial of Emily Stowe was a famous early Canada, Canadian judicial decision on abortion in Canada. The case involved Dr. Emily Stowe, one of Canada's first female Physician, doctors. Stowe was acquitted, which was a rare outcome for a ...

'' (1879) * ''

R. v. Jim ''R. v. Jim'' (1915) 26 C.C.C. 236, was a decision by the British Columbia Supreme Court on Aboriginal ("Indian") hunting and provincial game laws. The court found that Aboriginal hunting on Indian reserves is primarily a federal jurisdiction, ...

'' (1915) : Aboriginal hunting rights * ''

Canadian Admiral Corporation Ltd. v. Rediffusion Inc. ''Canadian Admiral Corporation Ltd. v. Rediffusion Inc.'', 954Ex. CR 382, 20 CPR 75 is a Canadian copyright law decision by the Exchequer Court (a predecessor of the Federal Court of Canada). The Court held that rebroadcasting of public performan ...

'', 954Ex. CR 382, 20 CPR 75: copyright * '' Teck Corp. Ltd. v. Millar'' (1972), 33 DLR (3d) 288 : Director liability * '' Bettel v. Yim'' (1978), 20 OR (2d) 617 (Co. Ct.): torts * '' Snow v. Eaton Centre Ltd.'' (1982) 70 C.P.R. (2d) 105: moral rights * '' Jane Doe v. Board of Commissioners of Police for the Municipality of Metropolitan Toronto'' (1989), 58 D.L.R. (4th) 396, 48 C.C.L.T. 105 (H.C.J.), aff'd (1990), 74 O.R. (2d) 225, 72 D.L.R. (4th) 580 (Div. Ct.), leave to appeal refused (1991) 1 O.R. (3d) 416 (C.A.): right to sue police force in negligence for failure to warn * ''

R. v. Glad Day Bookshops Inc. ''R v Glad Day Bookshops Inc'', (2004) is a leading Ontario Superior Court of Justice decision on pornography and homosexuality. The court found that a statutory scheme requiring the approval of the Ontario Film Review Board before films can be di ...

'' (1993): freedom of expression * '' Prise de Parole Inc v Guérin, Éditeur Ltée'' (1995), 104 FTR 104: moral rights * '' Jane Doe v. Board of Commissioners of Police for the Municipality of Metropolitan Toronto'' (1998), 39 O.R. (3d) 487, 160 D.L.R. (4th) 697, 43 C.C.L.T. (2d) 123 (Gen. Div.): damage award against police force for failure to warn * ''R. v.

Gillian Guess Gillian Guess (born 1955) is a Vancouver woman who was convicted in 1998 of obstruction of justice after becoming romantically involved with a murder defendant while she was a juror in his 1995 trial. Her case became significant because it set le ...

(1998), : only case in Canadian history where jury room discussions were made part of the public record. * ''

Rudder v. Microsoft Corp. ''Rudder v Microsoft Corp.'' 999OJ No 3778 (Sup Ct J). is an Ontario Superior Court case that is the leading decision on clickwrap licenses and forum selection clauses in Canada. Background Rudder brought a class action on behalf of MSN subscriber ...

'' (1999): clickwrap licenses * ''

Kanitz v. Rogers Cable Inc. ''Kanitz v Rogers Cable Inc'', 2002 CanLII 49415 (ON SC), 58 OR (3d) 299 is a leading Canadian decision on website service contracts. The court held that a posting on a corporate website is sufficient notice to bind customers to changes in their u ...

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O'Donohue v. Canada ''O'Donohue v Canada'' was a legal challenge to the exclusion of Roman Catholics from the throne of Canada. The applicant sought a declaratory judgment that certain provisions of the Act of Settlement 1701 violate the equality-rights section of t ...

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CanLII 41404 (Ont. S.C.) * ''

Lund v. Boissoin ''Lund v Boissoin'' is a court case in Alberta, Canada based on a June 2002 a letter to the editor from Reverend Stephen Boissoin published in the ''Red Deer Advocate'' on the subject of homosexuality. Dr. Darren Lund made a complaint about the l ...

'', 2009 ACQB 592 * ''

Bedford v. Canada is a decision of the Supreme Court of Canada on the Canadian law of sex work. The applicants, Terri-Jean Bedford, Amy Lebovitch and Valerie Scott, argued that Canada's prostitution laws were unconstitutional. The ''Criminal Code'' included a numbe ...

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Ontario Superior Court of Justice The Superior Court of Justice (French: ''Cour supérieure de justice'') is a superior court in Ontario. The Court sits in 52 locations across the province, including 17 Family Court locations, and consists of over 300 federally appointed judges. ...

case which declared prohibition of

streetwalking Street prostitution is a form of sex work in which a sex worker solicits customers from a public place, most commonly a street, while waiting at street corners or walking alongside a street, but also other public places such as parks, benches, e ...

as well as

brothels A brothel, bordello, ranch, or whorehouse is a place where people engage in sexual activity with prostitutes. However, for legal or cultural reasons, establishments often describe themselves as massage parlors, bars, strip clubs, body rub pa ...

unconstitutiona

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