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MODEL ADMINISTRATIVE JUSTICE ACT UPDATE
HERE ARE THE KEYNOTE FEATURES OF THE MODEL ACT AS REVISED AND EXPANDED IN THE “FINAL VARIANT” . [The keynote features that are new in the Final Variant are identified by bolded script.] You can view the Model Act here. …
An Administrative Justice Fix – A Model Act
Access to Justice Threatened in the Rush to Digitalization at the LTB – Guest Post by Kathy Laird
Kathy Laird is one of Ontario’s most knowledgeable administrative justice system experts. Over the course of an outstanding career she has served in that system in a range of important roles – as an appointed adjudicator at several of the…
Tribunal Justice Survey
Tribunal Watch Ontario is working with the University of Waterloo in conducting a survey of advocates with significant experience dealing with one or more of Ontario’s adjudicative tribunals on behalf of clients during the period March 31, 2019 to March…
The Ford Tornado in the Tribunal Justice Trailer Park – Finally, the Big Question
The Ford Tornado in the Tribunal Justice Trailer Park – Bill of Particulars, Section ‘D’: Impartiality, also Abandoned
The Ford Tornado in the Tribunal Justice Trailer Park – Bill of Particulars, Section ‘C’: Independence Abandoned
The Ford Tornado in the Tribunal Justice Trailer Park – Bill of Particulars Section ‘B’: Expertise Eviscerated
The Ford Tornado in the Tribunal Justice Trailer Park – Bill of Particulars Section ‘A’: Competence Destroyed
FORD’S IMPACT ON TRIBUNAL JUSTICE: A TORNADO IN A TRAILER PARK COMES TO MIND
Tribunal Justice in Ontario and the Ten-Year Cap – Math Savant Wanted
How Bad is it? Very Very
This post is about the decimation of the Social Benefits Tribunal as recently reported by Tribunal Watch Ontario. See Statement of Concern. What does the Social Benefits Tribunal Do? Claimants applying to the SBT are among the poorest and most…
How Bad Is It? Very
Administrative Justice in Ontario: A Cautionary Tale By Voy Stelmaszynski
TRIBUNAL INDEPENDENCE – WHAT WE’VE ALWAYS KNOWN
TRIBUNAL INDEPENDENCE CONSTITUTIONAL FOUNDATION INDEPENDENT APPOINTMENTS-RENEWAL BODY
Tribunal Independence – The Constitutional Foundation – An Epiphany Moment on the Road to Tribunal Justice
Judicial Tribunals – Ontario’s Appointment and Reappointment Policies – Drilling Down
TRIBUNAL APPOINTMENT AND REAPPOINTMENT POLICIES FACE ONTARIO COURT CHALLENGE
Written Hearings v. Oral Hearings – the 2.5-times Factor
Tribunal Watch Ontario
New Sheriff in Town There is a new sheriff in town – an organization just getting itself up and running called Tribunal Watch Ontario. It has emerged in response to the Ford government’s ferocious and devastating attack on Ontario’s system…
Now this is really interesting – A Framework of Excellence Against which to Measure your Tribunal
On the Canadian Council of Administrative Tribunals website (ccat-ctac.org) one now finds an invitation to tribunals to participate in a Department of Justice pilot project designed to examine how Federal administrative tribunals measure up against a Tribunal Excellence framework that…
Administrative Justice – Ford’s Abuse – Terminological Reflections
Administrative Justice – Back to the Future
Tribunal Decision-Making – Why are Oral Hearings so Efficacious?
TRIBUNAL DECISION-MAKING – THE INFLUENCE OF ORAL HEARINGS ON OUTCOMES
Emasculation of Tribunals Ontario Response to Comment re possible increase in number of jr applications
The Emasculation of Tribunals Ontario Cases in point and a Projection
Patronagizing the administrative justice system? Are year-or-less appointments part of a plan?
Premonitory Stats Postscript: “Vacancies” Assumption in Question
ONTARIO’S ADJUDICATIVE TRIBUNALS APPOINTMENTS/REAPPOINTMENTS PREMONITORY STATS
Competition Out, Patronage In – Ford’s new system for appointing Ontario Provincial Court Judges
Adjudicative Tribunals – Is the Unjust Budgets Constitutional Argument Still Valid?
Administrative Justice in the Ford Era – the Crisis Continues.
Administrative Justice Reform – 10,000 hits
UNJUST BUDGETS – Constitutionally Valid?
What the Harris Government did to the administrative justice system
September 18 meeting – Clarification
Lest there be any misunderstanding, this author’s advocacy for a class action based on claims for damages for breach of contract by adjudicators whose expected reappointments were refused is not principally motivated by a concern for the personal interests…
LEGAL REMEDIES POSTSCRIPT
REFUSED YOUR REAPPOINTMENT? HERE’S AN OPPORTUNITY
Word has it that members of Ontario adjudicative tribunals whose expected reappointments have been refused, plan to meet informally in September with a view to sharing experiences and beginning a discussion of possible options. I am advised that the meeting…
Refused Reappointments Legal Remedies Group Action
Posted here is a memorandum that explores the legal actions that might be brought against the Government of Ontario for its arbitrary refusals to reappoint incumbent, meritorious Members and Vice-Chairs of Ontario’s adjudicative tribunals when those reappointments were rightfully expected…
On the Sidelines, No Place for Lawyers
As we watch the Ford government’s attack on the impartiality and competence of Ontario’s adjudicative tribunals, it is time to refresh our understanding of the legal profession’s obligation to defend the justice system. The obligation of lawyers to defend the…
Adjudicative Tribunals – Ocean Port or the Rule of Law
Parkdale to close!!!
While the Ford government is busy destroying the independence and impartiality of our administrative justice tribunals, it is also wreaking havoc with the legal aid services on which much of the advocacy before those tribunals depend. Now comes news that…