Health Law

SJD student Y.Y. Brandon Chen has written a commentary in the Toronto Star looking at the impact on provincial health-care systems of the federal government’s recent decision to scale back temporary health-care coverage for refugees and refugee claimants ("Refugee health-care cuts threaten everyone’s access," May 23, 2012).

Read the full commentary on the Toronto Star website.

Global health-law conference tackles ethics and issues

By Mark Witten  

Prof. Trudo Lemmens and Dean Mayo Moran pay tribute to Prof. Rebecca Cook

By Linda Hutjens

Prof. Colleen Flood is the editor of a recently published book, Data Data Everywhere: Access and Accountability? (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2011).

In the Reference re Assisted Human Reproduction Act (2010 SCC 61), the Supreme Court of Canada issued a divided 4-4-1 opinion that declared several provisions of the federal Assisted Human Reproduction Act ("AHRA") ultra vires. As a result, many core provisions of the AHRA were declared unconstitutional, particularly those related to the introduction of a federal licensing and control system. Other provisions, for example those related to the federal government's power to regulate the reimbursement of expenses for surrogacy or gamete donation, remain intact.