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“One day, she just had enough”: Karin Wells on the women behind landmark cases in Canadian law

“One day, she just had enough”: Karin Wells on the women behind landmark cases in Canadian law

Update: 2025-09-24
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Verdicts & Voices is a legal current affairs podcast presented by the Canadian Bar Association. With her retinue of expert guests, host Alison Crawford keeps listeners up to date on news, views, and stories about the law and the justice system in Canada.

In this episode, writer and documentarian Karin Wells discusses her new book, Women Who Woke up the Law: Inside the Cases that Changed Women’s Rights in Canada. The conversation notably focuses on the cases of Jane Hurshman, who killed her abusive husband in 1982, and R v Ewanchuk, a landmark case about consent that featured a testy exchange between Justice John McClung of the Alberta Court of Appeal and Supreme Court Justice Claire L’Heureux-Dubé.


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“One day, she just had enough”: Karin Wells on the women behind landmark cases in Canadian law

“One day, she just had enough”: Karin Wells on the women behind landmark cases in Canadian law

Karin Wells, Alison Crawford