GUEST POST The following post is a report from the trenches, as it were, by Donald J. Porter, an advocate who represents individuals disabled from injury or disease who, unable to earn their own livelihood, must apply for the […]
Administrative Justice and DISABILITY Claims – NOT A PRETTY PICTURE Read More »
Last Saturday, I had serendipitously read two articles in succession. The first was Luis Millan’s piece in the March 14th issue of The Lawyers Weekly on the recently released Study of Quebec’s 15 adjudicative tribunals which had reported that those
Administrative justice: partisan appointments vs. democratic principles Read More »
As reported in the Canadian Legal Newswire on December 2, 2013, Professor Michael Saks, a law and social science scholar from the Arizona State University, recently spoke to the Toronto Conference marking the 20th anniversary of Canada’s Association in Defence
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 judgment in the June 2013 Saskatchewan Labour Relations Board case, the Saskatchewan Court of Appeal made the pro-government bias of that Province’s Labour Relations Board (a Board that the Court acknowledged was an adjudicative tribunal) plain for all
Judicial Tribunal Bias: A Case in Point Read More »