An Ontario judge has found that psychiatric patients at the Oak Ridge division of the Penetanguishene Mental Health Centre (today the Waypoint Centre for Mental Health Care) endured gross violations of their human dignity and human rights and were tortured both mentally and physically while detained. The case was a multi-plaintiff proceeding commenced in 2000 […]
Tag: Civil Rights
Kelley Bryan, along with Karen Spector representing the intervener ARCH, appeared in the Court of Appeal on March 24, 2017 to argue that individuals in the civil mental health system should be able to assert Charter rights before the Consent and Capacity Board. Currently, if a person’s Charter rights are violated while in psychiatric […]
Vincent Li’s killing of Tim McLean on a Greyhound bus in July 2008 is one of the most widely-publicized crimes in recent Canadian history. Mr. Li, then a 40-year-old in an undiagnosed psychotic state, stabbed and beheaded Tim McLean, a stranger beside him on the bus. Mr. Li was found not criminally responsible on account […]
Alex spoke as part of the African Canadians and the Law speakers’s panel with Asha James, Anthony Morgan, Dr. Barrington Walker and Wayne van der Meide at the University of Windsor Faculty of Law. […]
Kelley’s client, Kofi Patrong, successfully defeated an appeal by the Toronto police, affirming his right to sue the police over a gang-related shooting that left him with a permanent disability. Mr. Patrong was a teenager standing in his back yard when he was shot by a prominent gangster in Malvern, Scarborough. At the time, he […]
Mercedes Perez co-authored a paper with lawyers Tess Sheldon and Karen Spector analyzing the Charter’s liberty and equality protections for persons detained in psychiatric facilities. The paper is titled “Re-Centering Equality: The Interplay Between Sections 7 and 15 of the Charter in Challenges to Psychiatric Detention” and was published in the March 2016 issue of […]
Kelley presents closing submissions to the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario in support of her client’s allegations of racial discrimination within the Peel Regional Police Service. Although the force is responsible for policing one of the largest South Asian communities in Canada, Kelley’s client claimed that no South Asian police officer had ever been promoted […]
On behalf of her client, a Peel Police officer who claimed race discrimination against South Asian officers within the police force, Kelley examined and cross-examined police witnesses before the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario. South Asian officers testified that fellow officers said the police should “let them [South Asians in Peel] kill themselves. Let them go […]
Kelley appeared before the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario in an ongoing racial discrimination case against the Peel Police. Her client, a Staff Sergeant who was one of the first South Asian officers hired by the police force, testified about “humiliating” and “embarrassing” treatment by fellow officers due to his race. Peel region has one […]
Joining other leading practitioners in the field of mental health law, Mercedes and Alex presented at the Law Society’s Practice Before the Consent and Capacity Board conference. Mercedes spoke on the topic of law reform and Charter challenges to mental health legislation. Alex’s paper was presented with practical tips on funding for a mental health law […]