The Goal  of Administrative Justice System Reform


Adjudicative Tribunals that are: expert, optimally competent and implicitly independent 
Admired on all sides for the impartiality and quality of their decisions 
Respected for the fairness, fitness, and timeliness of their process

Unjust by Design by Ron Ellis

Originally launched in March 2013 in alignment with the publication of Ellis’s book, Unjust by Design, and redesigned and refreshed in 2019, this website’s aim is to foster discussion and provoke action concerning the issues in Canada’s administrative justice systems – the issues which Unjust by Design addresses, of course, but also generally.

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Ellis’s Latest Posts

Administrative Justice In The Ford Era – No. 3 In The Series

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In this, the third post on Ford’s administrative-justice policies, the topic is the remedies that would present themselves were it found that, notwithstanding Ocean Port, the unwritten, constitutional principle of judicial independence does apply to adjudicative tribunals – a proposition at issue in current appeal proceedings in Walter v. BC.
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Administrative Justice in the Ford Era – A System in Crisis

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After Harris, Ontario’s administrative justice system had become a generally admired system. This post describes the features of that system as it existed pre-Ford; outlines the retrograde policies that have been introduced by the Ford administration; and projects the consequences that will surely follow.
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