An application for leave to appeal Saskatchewan Federation of Labour v. Government of Saskatchewan, 2013 SKCA 61 (CanLII), to the Supreme Court of Canada was filed with the Supreme Court on September 5th. The Applicant is the Saskatchewan Government and General […]
In Unjust by Design, I asked this question: Are courts justified in applying a “deference as respect” standard of review to dependent and biased tribunals? I thought this was an important question (I still do), but I also believed that
In UBD, at page 133, the following appears: With its political patronage and at-pleasure appointments; with its seconding of dependent government employees to “independent” tribunals; with its policy of short, fixed-term appointments, arbitrary reappointments, and, especially, idiosyncratic removals; with the exposure of tribunal
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In Intra Vires, the Canadian Bar Associaiton National Administrative Law Section Newsletter (July 2013 issue) one finds a review of UBD by Mike Stephens from BC in which “anyone remotely interested in the current state of administrative justice in Canada”
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In the July 2013 issue of the OBA Public Sector Lawyers Newsletter, Voy T. Stelmazynski, Ontario Labour Relations Board Solicitor has published a very readable, very positive, review of Unjust by Design. It may be found at: http://www.oba.org/en/pdf/sec_news_pub_jul13_ste_ell.pdf=
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