What is the difference between moral claims and moral claims?

British Columbia, Canada


The following excerpt is from Bareham v. Petersen, 1999 CanLII 1612 (BC SC):

McLachlin J. (as she then was) in Tataryn v. Tataryn, 1994 CanLII 51 (SCC), [1994] 2 S.C.R. 807 at 823, said: … As between moral claims, some may be stronger than others. It falls to the court to weigh the strength of each claim and assign each its proper priority.

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