Hak et al. v. Attorney General of Québec.

We represent the appellants in this matter for which leave has been granted by the Supreme Court of Canada.

The government of Québec adopted legislation that prohibited certain public sector workers – including teachers and police officers – from wearing religious symbols. To insulate it from invalidity based on various constitutional grounds, the government invoked the “notwithstanding clause”. Representing a group of lead applicants, IMK is challenging this legislation on constitutional grounds that are not covered by the notwithstanding clause. This matter is highly novel, as the notwithstanding clause has not been frequently invoked and the criteria for adjudicating matters when it is invoked are still uncertain. The case is widely regarded as one of, if not the, most important constitutional cases to be decided in Canada in recent decades.