Interview with Martha McCarthy on M v H

Interview with Martha McCarthy on M v H

partner rights, legal process

Clip is an excerpt from an interview with Toronto family lawyer Martha McCarthy discussing the case "M v H", a challenge for spousal support following the dissolution of a same-sex partnership. The case resulted in a landmark decision of the Supreme Court of Canada that same-sex couples are due the same rights and protections as opposite-sex couples in civil partnerships (1999).

Nancy Nicol

Clip is original footage for documentary series, From Criminity to Equality, including Stand Together (2002), The Queer Nineties (2009), Politics of the Heart (2005) and The End of Second Class (2006), Produced and Directed by Nancy Nicol. http://www.yorku.ca/nnicol/documentary.html

2004-08-30

Copyright held by Nancy Nicol

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English

Moving image

2016-074

Toronto

Martha McCarthy interview with Nancy Nicol excerpt from Canadian Lesbian + Gay Archives on Vimeo.