by Khaldah Salih | Aug 16, 2023 | Test Cases
Overview Acting on behalf of Ayaan Farah, the Black Legal Action Centre (BLAC) and McCarthy Tétrault LLP have commenced a class action against the Toronto Police Service for the practice of “Carding”, which has disproportionately been used to harass and intimidate...
by Khaldah Salih | Jul 6, 2023 | News & Updates, Test Cases
The Black Legal Action Centre (BLAC) is delighted with the Ontario Civilian Police Commission’s decision. BLAC represented three of the four boys in the “Neptune 4” case and thanks counsel Jeff Carolin and Nana Yanful for their work. Read our full Press...
by Khaldah Salih | May 11, 2023 | Test Cases
In November 2011, members of the Toronto Police Service assaulted, pulled a gun on, arrested, and charged four Black teens as they left their homes in Toronto Community Housing and headed to a neighbourhood mentorship program. The youth filed complaints. In 2021, two...
by Khaldah Salih | May 11, 2023 | Test Cases
There is a crisis of mass incarceration and anti-Black racism in the criminal justice system. One of the forms this takes is that Black prisoners serve longer sentences at higher levels of security without access to critical rehabilitative programming. The Appellants,...
by Khaldah Salih | Feb 13, 2023 | News & Updates, Test Cases
Many of the recommendations presented to the jury by the Black Legal Action Centre (BLAC), the Canadian Council for Refugees (CCR), and the Refugee Law Office (RLO) were accepted by the jury in the inquest into the death of Abdurahman Hassan. Read the full Press...
by Khaldah Salih | Feb 13, 2023 | Test Cases
On June 11, 2015, Abdurahman Hassan, a 39-year-old Somali man living with schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, died after police officers restrained him. Mr. Hassan had been in custody at the Central East Correctional Centre for three years awaiting deportation. After...
