What is the test for interpretation of the Human Rights Code?
British Columbia, Canada
The following excerpt is from Gichuru v Purewal, 2019 BCSC 484 (CanLII):
Human rights legislation occupies a unique, privileged status relative to other legislation. It does not have the constitutional status of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, but prevails above all other legislation. A broad liberal and purposive approach must, therefore, be taken to interpretation of the Code: University of British Columbia v. Berg, 1993 CanLII 89 (SCC), [1993] 2 S.C.R. 353, p. 370. Law
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