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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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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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
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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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