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Max Planck Encyclopedia of Comparative Constitutional Law [MPECCoL]

R v Sparrow Case (Can)

Canada [ca]

Geneviève Murray

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Encyclopedia entries
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Max Planck Encyclopedia of Comparative Constitutional Law [MPECCoL]
Article last updated:
June 2017

From: Oxford Constitutions (http://oxcon.ouplaw.com). (c) Oxford University Press, 2023. All Rights Reserved.date: 11 December 2024

Subject(s):
Constitutional courts/supreme courts — Collective rights — Group rights — Fundamental rights — Cultural rights — Indigenous communities

General Editors: Rainer Grote, Frauke Lachenmann, Rüdiger Wolfrum
Managing Editor: Martina Mantovani

1. R v Sparrow [1990] 1 SCR 1075 (Can) (‘Sparrow’) marks the first case decided by the Supreme Court of Canada (Cour suprême du Canada) under Section 35 of the Constitution of Canada: the Constitution Acts 1867 to 1982 (Unofficial consolidation current as of September 2008) (UK Can) 1867 c.3 (30 & 31 Victoria) (Can). Section 35(1) provides that ‘[t]he existing [A]boriginal and treaty rights of the [A]boriginal peoples of Canada are hereby recognized and affirmed’. The reading given to Section 35 in the Sparrow case, particularly around ‘existing’ rights, provided...
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