Friends of the court : the privileging of interest group litigants in Canada
"In this book-length study of interest group litigation in Canada, Friends of the Court traces the Canadian Supreme Court's ever-changing relationship with interest groups since the 1970s. After explaining how the Court was pressured to welcome more interest groups in the late 1980s, Brodie introduces a new theory of political status describing how the Court privileges certain groups over others. By uncovering the role of the state in encouraging and facilitating litigation, this book challenges the idea that interest group litigation in Canada is a grassroots phenomenon."--Jacket
Print Book, English, ©2002
State University of New York Press, Albany, ©2002
xxi, 161 pages ; 23 cm.
9780791453001, 9780791452998, 9780585463988, 0791453006, 0791452999, 0585463980
47755875
Ch. 1. The Political Disadvantage Theory
Ch. 2. Interveners at the Supreme Court of Canada
Ch. 3. Interest Group Litigation and Judicial Supremacy
Ch. 4. The Market for Section 15 Status
Ch. 5. Political Disadvantage and State Action