{"id":111206,"date":"2026-01-06T15:10:16","date_gmt":"2026-01-06T20:10:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jurivision.ca\/public-interest-standing-analysis-of-article-85-of-the-code-of-civil-procedure-in-light-of-the-downtown-eastside-ruling\/"},"modified":"2026-02-20T14:18:24","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T19:18:24","slug":"public-interest-standing-analysis-of-article-85-of-the-code-of-civil-procedure-in-light-of-the-downtown-eastside-ruling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurivision.ca\/en\/public-interest-standing-analysis-of-article-85-of-the-code-of-civil-procedure-in-light-of-the-downtown-eastside-ruling\/","title":{"rendered":"Public Interest Standing: Analysis of Article 85 of the Code of Civil Procedure in Light of the Downtown Eastside Ruling"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Jurivision is pleased to launch a new visual publication featuring a legal article from the Revue g\u00e9n\u00e9rale de droit<\/span><\/em><\/a>. Made possible by the financial support from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC). These visual publications promote the mobilization of legal research knowledge while highlighting the authors who choose to publish their work with the Revue<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2012, the Supreme Court of Canada\u2019s landmark Downtown Eastside Sex Workers<\/em><\/a> ruling expanded the criteria for public interest standing. But how does this framework align with the Code of Civil Procedure<\/em> of Quebec, which sets out a more restrictive approach to the issue?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In this visual publication, Paul-David Chouinard, a doctoral candidate at the University of Ottawa\u2019s Faculty of Law, explores this conflict of norms and the context surrounding the Downtown Eastside<\/em> ruling. He attempts to reconcile the Supreme Court\u2019s findings with the requirements of the Quebec legal framework.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These observations are drawn from his article: \u201cL\u2019int\u00e9r\u00eat pour agir et le conflit des normes : analyse de l\u2019article 85 du nouveau Code de proc\u00e9dure civile au regard de l\u2019arr\u00eat Downtown Eastside<\/em><\/a>,\u201d published in the Revue g\u00e9n\u00e9rale de droit<\/em> ((2024) 54 HS R.G.D. 13-53).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In 2012, the Supreme Court of Canada\u2019s landmark Downtown Eastside Sex Workers ruling expanded the criteria for public interest standing. But how does this framework align with the Code of Civil Procedure of Quebec, which sets out a more restrictive approach to the issue? In this visual publication, Paul-David Chouinard, a doctoral candidate at the University of Ottawa\u2019s Faculty of Law, explores this conflict of norms and the context surrounding the Downtown Eastside ruling. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":127,"featured_media":111204,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[78,76,9],"class_list":["post-111206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-knowledge","tag-access-to-justice","tag-courts","tag-public-law"],"acf":[],"taxonomy_info":{"category":[{"value":27,"label":"JuriKnowledge"}],"post_tag":[{"value":78,"label":"Access to Justice"},{"value":76,"label":"Courts"},{"value":9,"label":"Public Law"}]},"featured_image_src_large":["https:\/\/jurivision.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/thumb-7-1024x576.jpg",1024,576,true],"author_info":{"display_name":"Nicolas Monet","author_link":"https:\/\/jurivision.ca\/en\/author\/nmonet\/"},"comment_info":0,"category_info":[{"term_id":27,"name":"JuriKnowledge","slug":"knowledge","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":27,"taxonomy":"category","description":"Video publications about legal issues, highlighting the work of legal scholars or the activities of legal practitioners.","parent":0,"count":80,"filter":"raw","term_order":"0","cat_ID":27,"category_count":80,"category_description":"Video publications about legal issues, highlighting the work of legal scholars or the activities of legal practitioners.","cat_name":"JuriKnowledge","category_nicename":"knowledge","category_parent":0}],"tag_info":[{"term_id":78,"name":"Access to Justice","slug":"access-to-justice","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":78,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":26,"filter":"raw","term_order":"0"},{"term_id":76,"name":"Courts","slug":"courts","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":76,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":14,"filter":"raw","term_order":"0"},{"term_id":9,"name":"Public Law","slug":"public-law","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":9,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":41,"filter":"raw","term_order":"0"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurivision.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurivision.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurivision.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurivision.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/127"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurivision.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111206"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/jurivision.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111206\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":111341,"href":"https:\/\/jurivision.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111206\/revisions\/111341"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurivision.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurivision.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurivision.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurivision.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}