{"id":707,"date":"2016-07-13T09:18:30","date_gmt":"2016-07-13T09:18:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ojen.turnbull.co\/?post_type=resource&#038;p=707"},"modified":"2017-01-05T14:22:48","modified_gmt":"2017-01-05T19:22:48","slug":"top-five-2009-ac-v-manitoba-director-of-child-and-family-services","status":"publish","type":"resource","link":"https:\/\/ojen2024.turnbull.co\/en\/resource\/top-five-2009-ac-v-manitoba-director-of-child-and-family-services","title":{"rendered":"Top Five 2009: AC v Manitoba (Director of Child and Family Services)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Each year at OJEN\u2019s Toronto Summer Law Institute, a judge from the Court of Appeal for Ontario identifies five cases that are of significance in the educational setting. This summary, based on these comments and observations, is appropriate for discussion and debate in the classroom setting.<\/p>\n<h3><em>AC v Manitoba (Director of Child and Family Services)<\/em>, 2009 SCC 30, [2009] 2 SCR 181<\/h3>\n<p>This case examined the ability of the courts to order medical treatment for childrenless than 16 years of age.&nbsp;A 14-year-old female Jehovah\u2019s Witness rejected a necessary blood transfusion due to her religious beliefs, but an applications judge ordered that she receive the blood transfusion pursuant to the <em>Child and Family Services Act<\/em>.&nbsp; The Supreme Court of Canada determined that the <em>Child and Family Services Act<\/em>was constitutional because the <em>Act<\/em> allows individuals less than 16 years of age to lead evidence proving their ability to exercise mature and independent judgment.&nbsp; Convincing evidence would allow individuals that are less than 16 years old to make their own decision regarding treatment.&nbsp;The full decision is available <a href=\"http:\/\/scc.lexum.org\/en\/2009\/2009scc30\/2009scc30.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Key Words<\/strong>: <em>Constitutional Law \u2013 Family Law \u2013 Charter of Rights and Freedoms \u2013 Fundamental Justice (s.7) \u2013 Equality [s.15(1)] \u2013 Freedom of Religion<\/em> \u2013 Blood Transfusion \u2013 Jehovah\u2019s Witness \u2013 Youth \u2013 Children \u2013 Medical Treatment<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","resource-type":[10],"area-of-law":[138,210,224],"subject-area":[18,222],"grade-level":[23,24,25],"resource-audience":[],"resource-format":[],"class_list":["post-707","resource","type-resource","status-publish","hentry","resource-type-case-summaries","area-of-law-charter-law","area-of-law-family-law","area-of-law-health-law","subject-area-law","subject-area-family-studies","grade-level-grade-10","grade-level-grade-11","grade-level-grade-12"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Top Five 2009: AC v Manitoba (Director of Child and Family Services) - OJEN<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"noindex, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Top Five 2009: AC v Manitoba (Director of Child and Family Services) - OJEN\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Each year at OJEN\u2019s Toronto Summer Law Institute, a judge from the Court of Appeal for Ontario identifies five cases that are of significance in the educational setting. 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