Tuyển tập báo cáo các nghiên cứu khoa học quốc tế ngành y học dành cho các bạn tham khảo đề tài: Fighting addiction's death row: British Columbia Supreme Court Justice Ian Pitfield shows a measure of legal courage | Harm Reduction Journal BioMed Central Commentary Fighting addiction s death row British Columbia Supreme Court Justice Ian Pitfield shows a measure of legal courage Dan Small1 2 3 Open Access Address Department of Medicine University of British Columbia Vancouver Canada 2Department of Anthropology University of British Columbia Vancouver Canada and 3PHS Community Services Society Vancouver Canada Email Dan Small - dansmall@ Published 28 October 2008 Received 4 August 2008 Accepted 28 October 2008 Harm Reduction Journal 2008 5 31 doi 1477-7517-5-31 This article is available from http content 5 1 31 2008 Small licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http licenses by which permits unrestricted use distribution and reproduction in any medium provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract The art in law like medicine is in its humanity. Nowhere is the humanity in law more poignant than in BC Supreme Court Justice Ian Pitfield s recent judgment in the legal case aimed at protecting North America s only supervised injection facility SIF as a healthcare program PHS Community Services Society versus the Attorney General of Canada. In order to protect the SIF from politicization the PHS Community Services Society the community organization that established and operates the program along with two people living with addiction and three lawyers working for free pro bono publico took the federal government of Canada to court. The courtroom struggle that ensued was akin to a battle between David and Goliath. The judge in the case Justice Pitfield ruled in favour of the PHS and gave the Government of Canada one year to bring the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act CDSA into compliance with the country s Charter of Rights and Freedoms. If parliament fails to do so then the CDSA will evaporate from .
