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3 judgments found.
Country:
Canada Year: 2020
Court: Ontario Superior Court of Justice
Citation: 2020 ONSC 6398
Health Topics:
Chronic and noncommunicable diseases,
Sexual and reproductive health,
Water, sanitation and hygiene Facts: A motion for an interlocutory injunction was brought to prevent the City of Toronto from enforcing its By-law that prohibited camping and erecting tents, structures, and shelters in City parks, City of Toronto Municipal Code, c. 608. The applicants did not challenge the validity of the By-law but sought an order to have it suspended …Read more
Tags: Access to healthcare,
Access to treatment,
Addiction,
Chronic and noncommunicable diseases,
Cleanliness,
Depression,
Diabetes,
Disabled,
Drug abuse,
drug users,
Health care and health services,
Infectious diseases,
Influenza,
Mental health,
Noncommunicable diseases,
Opioids,
People who use drugs,
Poverty,
Public safety,
Pulmonary diseases,
Respiratory diseases,
Safe drinking water,
Sexual and reproductive health,
Sexual harassment,
Substance abuse,
violence,
water sanitation and hygiene
Country:
Canada Year: 2016
Court: Ontario Court of Appeal
Citation: 2016 ONCA 676
Facts: The applicants appealed a decision affirming the constitutionality of Brian’s Law (Mental Health Legislative Reform), 2000, S.O. 2000, c. 9. (“Brian’s Law”), which was enacted by the Ontario legislature in 2000. Brian’s Law amended the Mental Health Act (“MHA”), adding provisions that expanded criteria for involuntary committal in a psychiatric hospital and introduced community treatment …Read more
Tags: Community-based care,
Compulsory commitment,
Compulsory examination,
Compulsory treatment,
Forced examination,
Forced treatment,
Health care and health services,
Incapacity,
Informed choice,
Informed consent,
Involuntary examination,
Mental competence,
Mental disability,
Mental disorder,
Mental health,
Mental institution,
Psychiatry,
Public safety,
Schizophrenia
Country:
South Africa Year: 2019
Court: HIGH COURT OF SOUTH AFRICA KWAZULU-NATAL DIVISION, PIETERMARITZBURG
Citation: [2019] 4 All SA 469 (KZP)
Facts: The applicants’ claim was based on s. 27(1)(b) of the Constitution – the right to sufficient food and water, which they submitted found further expression in the provisions of the Water Services Act 108 of 1997 (“WSA”). Their complaint argued that farm occupiers and labour tenants, especially the applicants, lacked “access to sufficient water, basic …Read more
Tags: Clean water,
Cleanliness,
Indigent,
Potable water,
Safe drinking water,
Sewage,
Waste,
Waste management
Country:
Slovenia Year: 2018
Court: European Court of Human Rights
Citation: no. 38775/14, § 2, ECHR 2018
Human Rights: Right to property,
Right to social security Facts: The applicant, Mr. Slavko Krajnc, was a professional truck driver in Celje, Slovenia. On September 29, 2003, Krajnc was deemed to have “category III work-related disability” as a result of his epilepsy, which rendered him unable to work as a truck driver. Accordingly, he had the right to be assigned to a different, more suitable …Read more
Tags: Disabilities,
Health systems and financing
Country:
United Kingdom Year: 2015
Court: High Court of Justice, Queen’s Bench Division
Citation: [2015] EWHC 990 (Admin)
Health Topics:
Sexual and reproductive health Human Rights: Freedom from discrimination,
Right to family life,
Right to privacy Facts: The Claimant was a male-to-female transgendered woman who challenged the requirement that she was recorded as the father on her children’s birth certificates. Following the birth of her daughter, but before the birth of her son, the Claimant decided to live as a man and changed her name to a female name. The Claimant was …Read more
Tags: Gender identity,
Gender reassignment,
Homosexual,
LGBTI,
Queer,
Sex reassignment,
Sexual orientation,
Tags: Gay,
Transgender
Country:
United Kingdom Year: 2004
Court: High Court of Justice, Queen's Bench Division
Citation: [2004] EWHC 644 (QB), [2005] Lloyds Rep Med 1, [2004] 2 FLR 365, [2005] 2 WLR 358, [2004] Fam Law 501, [2005] QB 506, [2004] 3 FCR 324, [2005] Lloyd's Rep Med 1, (2004) 77 BMLR 145
Health Topics:
Health care and health services,
Health information,
Hospitals,
Informed consent,
Medical malpractice,
Mental health,
Sexual and reproductive health Human Rights: Right of access to information,
Right to bodily integrity,
Right to family life Facts: In 1999, it was disclosed that for many years tissue and organs had been taken at or after post-mortems on deceased children, which were retained without the knowledge of the parents. Hospital post-mortem examinations were generally carried out following the death of a person in a hospital, provided, in accordance with the Human Tissue Act …Read more
Tags: Awareness,
Childbirth,
Depression,
Diagnostics,
Disclosure,
Duty of care,
Examination,
Family planning,
Health care professionals,
Health care workers,
Health facilities,
Informed choice,
Mental disorder,
Miscarriage,
Negligence,
Non-disclosure,
Notification,
Parental consent,
Patient choice,
Pregnancy,
Public hospitals,
Testing,
Tort,
Trauma
Country:
United Kingdom Year: 1999
Court: High Court of Justice, Queen's Bench Division
Citation: [1999] EWHC Admin 641
Health Topics:
HIV/AIDS,
Infectious diseases,
Medicines,
Prisons,
Sexual and reproductive health Human Rights: Freedom from discrimination,
Right to health Facts: In 1996, Glen Fielding was sentenced to four years imprisonment. Whilst incarcerated, Fielding, a man who had sex with men, requested condoms but was refused on the basis that it was against Prison Service policy to provide condoms to a prisoner who was not HIV-positive; there was no evidence that Fielding was HIV positive. The …Read more
Tags: AIDS,
Bisexual,
Contraception,
Contraceptives,
Custody,
Gay,
HIV,
Homosexual,
Imprisonment,
Incarceration,
Inmate,
Jail,
People living with HIV/AIDS,
PLHIV,
Queer,
Sexually transmitted diseases,
Sexually transmitted infections,
Sodomy,
STDs,
STIs