{"id":22495,"date":"2016-07-28T17:22:59","date_gmt":"2016-07-28T21:22:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cccc.org\/news_blogs\/?p=22495"},"modified":"2021-10-07T11:10:23","modified_gmt":"2021-10-07T15:10:23","slug":"common-sense-prevails-at-the-nova-scotia-court-of-appeal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cccc.org\/news_blogs\/intersection\/2016\/07\/28\/common-sense-prevails-at-the-nova-scotia-court-of-appeal\/","title":{"rendered":"Common Sense Prevails at the Nova Scotia Court of Appeal"},"content":{"rendered":"
This entry is part 24 of 42 in the series Trinity Western University<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div>
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Court House in Halifax<\/p><\/div>\n

The Nova Scotia Barristers Society (Society) was \u201cdiscomforted\u201d by Trinity Western University\u2019s (TWU) Community Covenant which, \u201cin addition to mundane items\u201d noted the Nova Scotia Court of Appeal (Court), \u201cprohibits sexual intimacy outside the marriage between a man and a woman.\u201d<\/p>\n

However \u201cdiscomforted\u201d the Society may have felt about that Covenant, it had no jurisdiction to punish a TWU law graduate in its attempt to punish the University. As the Court put it, \u201cTrinity Western\u2019s law graduate is not Trinity Western\u2019s alter ego.\u201d Well said. The Court\u2019s decision is a helpful reminder of just how out of step the Society became with its campaign of political correctness by overreaching its jurisdiction in an attempt to control the admissions policy of a law school in another province, British Columbia.<\/p>\n

When one steps back and considers what the Society tried to do, one cannot but be amazed at the height of hubris. Consider this: a Nova Scotia entity charged with the solemn responsibility to protect \u201cthe public interest\u201d in the practice of law in its province, answered the call of critical academics and activists that the Society must show its disapproval of a British Columbia law school because it is \u201cdiscomforted\u201d by the religious practice of marriage as being between one man and one woman on that campus. The Society gave itself the jurisdiction to decide that TWU\u2019s Community Covenant was discriminatory against potential LGBTQ applicants, and that it violated the Charter and human rights legislation and therefore was \u201cunlawful.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The Court of Appeal rightly rejected the Society\u2019s power grab. In the first place, the Court noted that TWU is a private university, as recognized by the Supreme Court of Canada in 2001, and therefore not subject to the Charter. It was illogical for the Society to suggest that TWU violated the Charter when it is not even subject to the Charter! \u201cTrinity Western did not \u201cunlawfully\u201d violate an enactment that has no application to it,\u201d the Court held.<\/p>\n

Further, the Court of Appeal noted that there was no statutory authority for the \u201cSociety to issue an independent ruling that someone has violated Nova Scotia\u2019s Human Rights Act<\/em>.\u201d There was not one \u201csupportive word\u201d in any legislation that gave the Society such authority. Nor, said the Court, was there any ability for the Society to establish its own \u201ccourt of competent jurisdiction under the Charter<\/em> with the authority to rule that someone\u2019s conduct in British Columbia unlawfully violated the Charter<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Society\u2019s role in protecting the \u201cpublic interest\u201d in the practice of law is to ensure that a person practicing law has the required \u201cknowledge and skill of a person trained in the law.\u201d To the extent that the Society needs to approve an institution to ensure law graduates obtain the proper education is within its jurisdiction. What is not in the Society\u2019s bailiwick is to focus on matters at a university not related to the practice of law. By implication lawful religious beliefs and practices are not related to legal practice.<\/p>\n

Common sense is an apt description for this decision. The Court was not amused that the Barrister\u2019s Society unilaterally declared jurisdiction to govern admissions policies that have nothing to do with the general competence to practice law. If only the Ontario Court of Appeal had followed a similar course.<\/p>\n

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TWU Counsel Brian Casey and Kevin Sawatsky with the counsel of interveners supporting TWU’s position<\/p><\/div>\n

It truly is remarkable that TWU has been forced onto this arduous road of legal attrition over an issue already settled by the Supreme Court of Canada. The University has had to fight for its right to practice its religious belief a second time. The process is the punishment it seems. In 2001 the Supreme Court of Canada ruled in its favour to have an education degree despite its admissions requirements. Today, in 2016, because it desires to have a School of Law, the politically correct academics and activists have created such an uproar that TWU has had to fight for its constitutionally protected right not on one front but on three separate fronts in three provinces. It is simply ridiculous.<\/p>\n

What TWU wishes to do is to continue with its role as a religious university that issues degrees with which its graduates may enter the work force — something it has done since the 1960s. It has not violated one iota of Canadian law in doing so. But because its religious views on marriage are no longer in vogue it was forced to face this colossal legal barrage. It is time in this country for the harassment of Christian institutions to come to an end. The law societies show how untrue their claim is that ours is a country for everyone when they disregard the constitutional protection of religious institutions.<\/p>\n

Thankfully, we still have courts, like the Nova Scotia Court of Appeal, that can see through the legal sophistry and allow common sense to prevail.<\/p>\n

\"Supreme

Supreme Court of Canada, Ottawa<\/p><\/div>\n

We now await the soon to be released decision of the British Columbia Court of Appeal. Then off we will go, no doubt, to the Supreme Court of Canada where we will finally see whether its 2001 TWU decision that respected religious freedom is still good law. Hopefully, common sense will prevail there too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This entry is part 24 of 42 in the series Trinity Western University<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div>

The Nova Scotia Barristers Society (Society) was \u201cdiscomforted\u201d by Trinity Western University\u2019s (TWU) Community Covenant which, \u201cin addition to mundane items\u201d noted the Nova Scotia Court of Appeal (Court), \u201cprohibits sexual intimacy outside the marriage between a man and a woman.\u201d However \u201cdiscomforted\u201d the Society may have felt about that… More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ts_fic_featured_image_caption":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[137],"tags":[138,141,142,195],"series":[301],"class_list":["post-22495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-law-and-religion","tag-religious-freedom","tag-religious-liberty","tag-trinity-western-university","series-trinity-western-university"],"yoast_head":"\nCommon Sense Prevails at the Nova Scotia Court of Appeal - CCCC Blogs<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/cccc.org\/news_blogs\/intersection\/2016\/07\/28\/common-sense-prevails-at-the-nova-scotia-court-of-appeal\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Common Sense Prevails at the Nova Scotia Court of Appeal - CCCC Blogs\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Nova Scotia Barristers Society (Society) was \u201cdiscomforted\u201d by Trinity Western University\u2019s (TWU) Community Covenant which, \u201cin addition to mundane items\u201d noted the Nova Scotia Court of Appeal (Court), \u201cprohibits sexual intimacy outside the marriage between a man and a woman.\u201d However \u201cdiscomforted\u201d the Society may have felt about that... 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Over twenty lawyers were crammed into the Court Room on the 5th floor of The Law Courts, in downtown Halifax. It seemed only a\u2026","rel":"","context":"In \"law and religion\"","block_context":{"text":"law and religion","link":"https:\/\/cccc.org\/news_blogs\/tag\/law-and-religion\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"The Law Courts, Halifax, Nova Scotia","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cccc.org\/news_blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/IMG_2160-300x200.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":27686,"url":"https:\/\/cccc.org\/news_blogs\/intersection\/2018\/06\/08\/june-15-twu-decision-to-be-released\/","url_meta":{"origin":22495,"position":3},"title":"June 15 TWU Decision To Be Released","author":"cccc","date":"June 8, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"\u00a0 June 15, 2018, at 9:45 a.m., Canadian legal history will be made.\u00a0 That is when the Supreme Court of Canada (SCC) will release its decisions concerning the Trinity Western University School of Law.\u00a0 There are two decisions that will be given. Background In December 2013, the Federation of the\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cccc.org\/news_blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/IMG_0230.jpg?fit=1200%2C800&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cccc.org\/news_blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/IMG_0230.jpg?fit=1200%2C800&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cccc.org\/news_blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/IMG_0230.jpg?fit=1200%2C800&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cccc.org\/news_blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/IMG_0230.jpg?fit=1200%2C800&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cccc.org\/news_blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/IMG_0230.jpg?fit=1200%2C800&ssl=1&resize=1050%2C600 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":21863,"url":"https:\/\/cccc.org\/news_blogs\/intersection\/2016\/03\/30\/cccc-granted-intervener-status-at-the-bc-court-of-appeal-on-twu-case\/","url_meta":{"origin":22495,"position":4},"title":"CCCC Granted Intervener Status at the BC Court of Appeal on TWU Case","author":"cccc","date":"March 30, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"Today Mr. Justice Peter M. Willcock, of the British Columbia Court of Appeal, granted leave for the Canadian Council of Christian Charities (CCCC) to intervene in the case involving Trinity Western University (TWU) and the Law Society of British Columbia (LSBC). Barry W. 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