The Women's Legal Education and Action Fund (LEAF) applied to intervene in an appeal concerning the legal remedies available to a woman who engaged in sexual intercourse with a doctor in exchange for drugs to which she was addicted.
The respondent opposed the application, arguing that LEAF would add nothing new and that the Charter should not be raised for the first time at the Supreme Court.
Sopinka J. granted the application, finding that LEAF could present a different perspective and that the appropriateness of raising the Charter should be decided on the appeal itself.
