OBA Family Law and SOGIC PROGRAM | Original Program Date: June 13, 2018

In questions of custody and access, how does the Court consider and weigh the impact on a child of potentially discriminatory behaviour in assessing the child’s best interests? When the potentially discriminatory behaviour is based in religious beliefs, what place does freedom of religion take?

The Court of Appeal of England and Wales recently tackled these difficult questions in Re: M (Children). In that case, the Court set aside a trial decision which denied direct contact to a transgendered father where the trial judge found that the children would be ostracised from their ultra-orthodox Jewish community.

Join our expert panel to explore this challenging decision, and how freedom of religion, human rights and equality law come into play in the analysis of the best interests of the child.

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PROGRAM CHAIRS

Adrian Ishak, Senior Corporate Counsel, Salesforce
Eric Sadvari, Goldhart & Associates

PROGRAM SPEAKERS

Philip M. Epstein, Q.C., Epstein Cole LLP
N. Nicole Nussbaum, Barrister and Solicitor
Joanna Radbord, Martha McCarthy & Company LLP
Dr. Françoise Susset, Psychologist & Advocate, Institute for Sexual Minority Health