Best Interests of the Child conference report released

The report of the conference "Best Interests of the Child: Meaning and Application in Canada", hosted by the Faculty of Law and the David Asper Centre for Constitutional Rights in February 2009, has been released (June 25, 2009).

The report calls for a new approach to application of the Best Interests of the Child, a core principle in the Convention on the Rights of the Child. The report brings together research and the voice of practitioners who gathered for the national, multi-disciplinary conference on this subject.

• Full Conference Report (PDF, 3.8 MB): English, French
• Conference Report news release (PDF)
• See the conference web page