# Ahluwalia SCC / TikTok source note

Captured TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@mirasalem.co/video/7668127882203368724

TikTok metadata title: One woman’s 16 year battle just completely rewrote Canadian law to fi...

TikTok description: One woman’s 16 year battle just completely rewrote Canadian law to finally expose the invisible cage of coercive control. Here’s how Kuldeep Kaur Ahluwalia just changed the legal system forever. #canpoli #womensrights #womensrightsmatter #canadianpolitics  #legalsystem 

Primary legal sources:
- SCC docket 41061: https://www.scc-csc.ca/cases-dossiers/search-recherche/41061/
- SCC decision page: https://decisions.scc-csc.ca/scc-csc/scc-csc/en/item/21505/index.do
- SCC PDF reasons: https://decisions.scc-csc.ca/scc-csc/scc-csc/en/21505/1/document.do
- Lower court files: 2022 ONSC 1303; 2023 ONCA 476.

Verified points:
- SCC judgment rendered May 15, 2026.
- Appeal allowed in part.
- SCC docket states the order of the Ontario Court of Appeal was set aside in part and declaration replaced by one stating the new tort of intimate partner violence is recognized.
- SCC docket states paragraph 15 of the Superior Court order was replaced so the father pays the mother $100,000 in general compensatory damages in relation to the tort of intimate partner violence.
- Côté, Rowe and Jamal JJ. dissented.

Limitations:
- TikTok full MP4/audio download was blocked by TikTok CDN access; metadata, oEmbed and thumbnail were captured.
- Not legal advice and not a judicial misconduct allegation.

NewsForBC treatment: provincial public-interest explainer, not legal advice.