Disability Rights Coalition v Nova Scotia: Unnecessary Institutionalization is Discrimination, NSCA Finds
In Disability Rights Coalition v Nova Scotia (Attorney General), 2021 NSCA 70 [DRC], the Nova Scotia Court of Appeal (“NSCA”) made a “ground-breaking” decision upholding the right of disabled Canadians not to be unnecessarily institutionalized. In this decision, the NSCA upheld a finding of discrimination against three individuals who were unnecessarily institutionalized due to a […]