Women's Legal Education and Action Fund

Canadian Lawyer magazine describes LEAF as a "non-profit organization that works to advance gender equality and human rights through litigation, law reform, and education".[1] The founding chair of LEAF was Susan Tanner,[2] and author Judy Rebick wrote in her book Ten Thousand Roses: The Making of a Feminist Revolution that other founders had included both lawyers and non-lawyers, such as Nancy Ruth, Pat Hacker, Linda Ryan Nye, Kay Macpherson, Kay Sigurjonsson, and even former Chatelaine magazine editor Doris Anderson.[3]

In 1991 Sherene Razack wrote the book Canadian Feminism and the Law: The Women's Legal Education and Action Fund and the Pursuit of Equality just a half decade after the creation of LEAF.[4] A book by Peter Manfredi was later written on the various results of the advocacy pursued by LEAF entitled Feminist Activism in the Supreme Court: Legal Mobilization and the Women's Legal Education and Action Fund.[5]

• R. v. Ryan[6]
• Little Sisters Book and Art Emporium v. Canada (Minister of Justice), [2000] 2 S.C.R. 1120
• British Columbia (PSERC) v. BCGSEU [1999] 3 S.C.R. 3
• M. v. H., [1999] 2 S.C.R. 3
• Eldridge v. British Columbia (Attorney General), [1997] 3 S.C.R. 624
• Weatherall v. Canada (Attorney General), [1993] 2 S.C.R. 872
• R. v. Butler, [1992] 1 S.C.R. 452
• Canadian Council of Churches v. Canada (Minister of Employment and Immigration), [1992] 1 S.C.R. 236
• Norberg v. Wynrib, [1992] 2 S.C.R. 224
• R. v. Sullivan, [1991] 1 S.C.R. 489
• Brooks v. Canada Safeway Ltd., [1989] 1 S.C.R. 1219
• Andrews v. Law Society of British Columbia, [1989] 1 S.C.R. 143
• R. v. J.A., 2011 SCC 28

• LEAF website

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