Law360 Canada ( May 25, 2020, 9:33 AM EDT) -- Application by Sprague for judicial review of the respondent Hospital’s no visitor policy imposed because of the COVID-19 pandemic on the basis that it infringed his rights under ss. 7, 12 and 15 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms (Charter). The applicant also argued that the Chief Medical Officer of Health’s Memorandum recommending that the hospitals allow only essential visitors and containing guidance on what essential visitors might mean also violated his father’s rights under s. 15 of the Charter. The applicant’s elderly and incapacitated father was hospitalized in March 2020. The applicant was his substitute decision maker. Because of the new hospital policy, the applicant had been unable to visit his father. ...