What’s Wrong with this Picture? The only persons now authorized to issue eviction orders against B.C. residential tenants are employees of the Tenancy Branch, of the Office of Housing and Construction Standards, in the B.C. Ministry of Energy and Mines. […]
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Prologue In Valente, and in the jurisdiction Valente spawned, the Supreme Court has specified the structural guarantees that are necessary for a judicial tribunal or its members to meet the rule of law requirements for judicial independence and impartiality and, as
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In a speech to the Pro Bono Annual Volunteer Appreciation Breakfast on April 25, 2013, Mr. Justice T. M. McEwan, of the B.C. Supreme Court, recommended five books to his audience which he said he had “found useful in shaping my
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The News: This month (April 2013), the Federal Public Sector Integrity Commissioner tabled in Parliament its Report of her Office’s investigation into complaints of “wrongdoing” that had been made against the former Chairperson of the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal in
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Introduction it is easily argued that because of the nature of the executive branch’s administrative justice strategies and tactics, most judicial tribunals outside of Quebec fail to conform to one or more of the common law prerequisites for judicial independence. Chapter 7 of
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