The Question Once one acknowledges that the current regime of short-term, renewable appointments of judicial tribunal members cannot possibly be squared with either the constitutional or common law requirements of judicial independence, one is then faced with this question: Is […]
Tribunal Appointments – Life-Tenured? No Read More »
One of Unjust by Design’s (the book’s) principal concerns is with the administrative justice system’s structures and the fact that those structures are egregiously incompatible with the rule of law and the Constitution. The Law Both the common law of
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Prologue When governments are preoccupied with deficit reduction, the budget problem for judicial tribunals, never good in the best of times, gets much worse. On February 1, 2013, Ian Strachan, Chair of the Ontario Workplace Safety and Insurance Appeals Tribunal,
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Introduction This post is about the issue of arbitrary reappointment regimes for tribunal adjudicators. Ontario Lawyers and paralegals will have noticed the Law Society of Upper Canada advertising recently for a full-time chair and part-time adjudicators for the Law Society
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On October 26, 2012, the Honourable Mr. Justice Louis LeBel was a keynote speaker at the CLEBC Administrative Law Conference 2012 in Vancouver. His speaking notes have now been published in the February 13, 2013, issue of the Canadian Journal
Lebel, J: constitutional protection for administrative tribunals? Read More »