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 […]
Unjust by design, Canada’s Administrative Justice Gets no Respect Read More »
In its June 7, 2013, issue, The Lawyers Weekly reported on the Barreau’s 2013 annual report on Federal and Quebec administrative and legislative developments over the past year. Amongst the Barreau’s reported concerns was what it saw to be the
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Court of Appeal Approves Mid-term Dismissal of Adjudicators Saskatchewan’s Court of Appeal has dismissed the Unions’ appeal of the Queen’s Bench finding that the independence and impartiality of the Saskatchewan Labour Relations Board’s neutral adjudicators – the Chair and Vice-Chairs
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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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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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