Does a court have jurisdiction to grant individual and broad declaratory relief?
Ontario, Canada
The following excerpt is from R. v. A Group of 54 Respondents, 2022 ONSC 1595 (CanLII):
See Parent v. Attorney General of Canada et al., 2022 ONSC 1374, a recent decision involving a civil application seeking both individual and broad declaratory relief in relation to unconstitutional victim surcharges, wherein James J. declined to grant a broad declaration but vacated the victim surcharge imposed on the individual applicant.
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