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Litigation

Test-case and appellate litigation are key tools that we use to advance our strategic plan. We work closely with caseworkers in community legal clinics across the province to identify issues and potential legal cases, and apply an equity framework and a human rights lens to guide our decision-making around which cases to take on and which legal arguments to make. Our litigation efforts focus on resolving systemic problems in provincial and federal income security programs.

Click on the links below for information about the cases we are currently working on and have worked on in the past. Our Case Selection Criteria is available here. Our policy advocacy and community organizing pages have information on other areas of our work.

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  • Income Security Advocacy Centre and Parkdale Community Legal Services welcome the Supreme Court’s landmark decision for gig workers June 26, 2020 - Media Release Toronto: In a ground-breaking decision released this morning, the Supreme Court of Canada made it easier for workers to challenge unfair contractual terms imposed by companies that hire them, whether or not they are in a formal employment relationship. The court sided with Uber drivers and reached a decision that addresses the concerns ...
  • Access to Justice for Workers: Uber v. Heller October 28, 2019 - ** Français ci-dessous ** In Ontario, if your boss refuses to pay the minimum wage or violates your other employment rights, you can go to court or contact the Ministry of Labour. But can your boss make you sign an agreement to give up that right? On November 6, 2019, the Supreme Court of Canada will hear ...
  • ISAC Welcomes Decision to Reverse Cut to TCB / Se réjouit de la décision d’annuler la suppression de la Prestation transitoire pour enfants October 3, 2019 - ** Français ci-dessous ** The Income Security Advocacy Centre (ISAC) welcomes the provincial government’s decision to reverse the cancellation of the Transition Child Benefit, a program that helps feed and clothe 32,000 Ontario children every month. The Transition Child Benefit (TCB) provides up to $230 per child to social assistance recipients who do not receive federal or ...
  • Take Action! Community Legal Clinic Services Under Threat May 1, 2019 - The provincial government’s recent budget made cuts to a number of public programs and services, which will hurt low-income people in Ontario. This includes cuts to social assistance, public health, library services, prescription coverage for children and youth, public education, and many others. It also includes a massive 30% cut to legal aid funding. And ...
  • Human Rights Tribunal ruling on insurance companies and CPP-D: Reilly v. Ford February 11, 2019 - In a disappointing decision released on January 18, 2019, the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario ruled that insurance companies do not discriminate when they deduct benefits received from a Canada Pension Plan Disability pension from long-term disability insurance payments. Background on the Case Disability insurance plays a critical role in ensuring that those who are ...
See More Related Posts
  • Access to Justice for Workers: Uber v. Heller
  • Canadian Human Rights Commission v. Attorney General of Canada
  • Drug Benefits for Social Assistance Recipients: S.S. v. Ontario Public Drug Programs
  • Employment and Human Rights Law: Discrimination and Wrongful Firing of Indigenous Elder
  • New Legal Challenge to ODSP’s Special Diet Allowance: Neuromyelitis Optica
  • ODSP: Treatment and the Definition of Disability
  • Privacy Rights and Access to Information: Toronto Star v. Ontario
  • Reilly v. Ford Motor Company: Challenge to the deduction of CPP-D benefits from private disability insurance payments
  • Abbey v. Director of ODSP: Discriminatory treatment of business income
  • Access to Doctors: ISAC’s Intervention at the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario
  • Challenge to deduction of pregnancy benefit weeks from regular EI benefit entitlement (Miller v. Attorney General of Canada)
  • Challenge to the NCBS Clawback from families on social assistance (Chokomolin, Lance, & Prine v. Her Majesty the Queen in Right of Canada, et al.)
  • Criminal Law: Mandatory Minimum Fines and Poverty
  • Deduction of Child Support from ODSP Benefits (Director of ODSP v. Ansell)
  • Discrimination against separated spouses: Smith v. ODSP and OW
  • Employment Insurance: Challenge to impact of EI pregnancy benefit eligibility rules for women working part time (A.G. Canada v. Lesiuk)
  • Employment Insurance: Migrant Workers and Access to Parental Benefits
  • Employment Law: Right to Termination and Severance Pay
  • Federal Court judicial review application: Access to CPP disability benefits
  • Immigration Sponsorship and the “Minimum Necessary Income” Requirement
  • Income Security and the Right to Housing (Tanudjaja v. Canada and Ontario)
  • Inquest into the Death of Kimberly Rogers
  • Jurisdiction of the Social Security Tribunal Appeal Division
  • ODSP & Ontario Works: Charter Challenge to OW/ODSP rules deeming income for sponsored immigrants in receipt of social assistance (VJ et al v. Attorney General of Ontario)
  • ODSP and Ontario Works: Legal Challenges to the Special Diet Allowance
  • ODSP and the definition of “disability”: M.C. v. ODSP
  • ODSP: Access to the Program for Persons with a Disability
  • ODSP: Bias and the Definition of Disability
  • ODSP: Challenging Social Assistance Overpayments at the Social Benefits Tribunal (Surdivall v. ODSP)
  • ODSP: Evidence Required to Establish Disability (Ferris v. ODSP)
  • ODSP: Funding for Dentures
  • ODSP: Medical Treatment and the Definition of Disability
  • ODSP: Stereotyping, Bias and the Right to a Hearing Record
  • ODSP: Supporting Recipients to Get to Medical Treatment
  • ODSP: The medical travel allowance and access to mental health treatment
  • ODSP: The one-year limitation period for appealing to the Social Benefits Tribunal
  • S.A. v. Metro Vancouver Housing: Preserving Access to Social Assistance after Inheritance
  • Social Assistance: The impact of Ontario’s new social assistance computer program (OPSEU v. Ontario)
  • Social Security Tribunal: Access to Employment Insurance for those Suffering From Addiction
  • Social Security Tribunal: Participation in Appeals in the Public Interest
  • The discriminatory denial of ODSP benefits for persons with addictions (Director of ODSP v. Tranchemontagne)

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