Biomedical subjects
Publications and source records attributed to Gord Cruess.
On 4 April 2005, India's Patents (Amendment) Act, 2005 (the Act) received presidential assent. The Act, which represents a major shift in Indian patent policy, raises serious concerns that the supply of generic drugs to developing countries could decline.
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On 19 December 2003, the Ontario Superior Court of Justice declared the federal government's Canada Pension Plan (CPP) survivor benefits regime as it applied to same-sex couples unconstitutional. Under the law, survivors in same-sex relationships could not receive benefits if their partner had died prior to 1 January 1998, while no similar restriction was imposed on opposite sex-relationship survivors. In Hislop v Canada, Justice Macdonald found this cut-off date to be unconstitutional because it denied gay and lesbian survivors equality of the law.
In two recent decisions, R v Malmo-Levine and R v Caine (decided together) and R v Clay, the Supreme Court of Canada ruled that the criminal prohibition on marijuana possession, in the absence of a regulatory exemption for medical purposes, is constitutional.
On 27 October 2003, the Ontario Superior Court of Justice held that the Ontario Securities Commission (the Commission) has the authority to compel testimony and the production of written documents from parties that are not registered under the Ontario Securities Act (OSA). The finding in Universal Settlements International, Inc v Ontario (Securities Commission) is important because it affirms the authority of the Commission to investigate businesses that might be engaging in the sale of illegal viatical settlements, an unregulated industry with potential negative impacts for people living with HIV/AIDS.