A-Z Subject List: Key Legal Treatises and Textbooks

Canadian Health Law and Policy draws together the legal and policy issues that are relevant to human health, and sheds new light on emerging and continuing trends.

Provides extensive coverage of the ever-expanding issues in health care and their corresponding legal implications

This book provides a comprehensive overview of Canadian public health law and policy. Written and edited by leading health law scholars and featuring contributions from legal and health experts from across the country, it offers an in-depth analysis of current critical public health issues.

This edition further examines the logical and temporal sequence of the issues a mentally disordered accused is likely to encounter from arrest to sentencing and offers an overview of the key topics that judges, Crown and defense counsel, and mental health providers face in their day-to-day work with mentally disordered offenders.

This book addresses important aspects of both individual and systemic advocacy on behalf of individuals with serious mental health issues. It surveys the field in all respects, addressing civil mental health legislation across Canada; the mental disorder provisions in the Criminal Code; other areas of criminal law where mental health is an issue; the representation of Indigenous clients with psychiatric histories; and Coroner’s Inquests into the deaths of persons in crisis at the hands of police and in institutional settings.

A comprehensive guide to criminal litigation involving vulnerable accused persons who may be unfit to stand trial, considering whether to seek a verdict of “Not Criminally Responsible” and navigating through the complex provisions within Part XX.1, the Mental Disorder Provisions of the Code.

Consent to treatment is the most hotly debated medical legal issue in the world. The entire patient-provider relationship rests on it. The Canadian Law of Consent to Treatment anticipates the possibility of a medical dispute and provides solutions to what could otherwise be a legal and risk management nightmare.

This book examines all the facets of the doctor-patient relationship: the issue of consent and the right to refuse and withdraw consent, confidentiality and duty of disclosure, negligence, attendant standards of care and the defences available, and the hospital’s duty of care and liability.

This book delves into key federal and provincial court rulings on MAID from 1993 to 2015 and explains subsequent legislative history

This collection considers how health, and "women's health" are shaped through intersecting systems of power based on colonialism, sexism, racism, heterosexism, and ableism.

This book explores the systematic use of Charter litigation in the area of health care and the ultimate policy impact of the resulting judicial decisions.