Judith Keene

Judith Keene joined the Clinic Resource Office of Legal Aid Ontario after practising with provincial administrative tribunals for eight years.. She provides legal advice and litigation support to Community Legal Clinics and Student Legal Aid Societies, with a focus on human rights legislation and section 15 of the Charter of Rights applied to issues affecting poor people. She has provided advisory support in constitutional challenges to cutbacks and restrictions in social programs (for example, Falkiner v. Ontario (Ministry of Community and Social Services), Irshad v. Ontario (Ministry of Health), Rogers v. Ontario (Ontario Works Administrator, Sudbury), Broomer v. Ontario (Attorney General)). Judith Keene has published a legal text on human rights and numerous articles on human rights legislation and on the Charter of Rights.