Our advocacy sets us apart from the rest and makes us unlike other firms.
While we’re apt at assessing civil litigation and employment matters often assisting clients with these types of files, our focus has remained human rights. Despite few others focusing their practices in this area of law.
Since we believe every client matter should be approached like our own. Particularly when our clients’ rights have been violated. Clients have since come to rely on our adept advocacy to achieve their desired results.
PICTURE: LAW SOCIETY OF ONTARIO
Christopher Karas, our Principal, has experienced violations first hand. As a litigant he notably challenged his French Catholic school board and his school at the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario when the school board barred him from putting up posters of his civil rights hero Harvey Milk and a Gender and Sexuality Alliance that he and his peers tried to build. As a result the school now has a GSA and the board has since changed its name.
In 2016, he filed a federal complaint challenging the MSM, men who have sex with other men, blood donation deferral policy at the Canadian Human Rights Commission to change Canada's blood donation policy. He challenged the policy when he was barred from donating lifesaving blood at a local blood donation clinic. The federal complaint against both Canadian Blood Services and Health Canada is presently before the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal and may result in significant policy and public policy changes.
Karas, founded by its Principal, Christopher Karas, focuses on provincial and federal human rights. Our practice is built on our experience in human rights, as both an experienced litigant and human rights advocate. Our areas of practice include civil litigation and employment. Karas offers legal services in English and French, and represents clients in the language of their choice.
