Wednesday, 31 July 2013

I contract, therefore I am: the Third Source Powers of Government Entities: Part Two

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In my previous post , I laid out the details of the New London College case and some disagreement amongst the judges of the UK Supreme Court...

I contract, therefore I am: the Third Source Powers of Government Entities: Part One

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Over at Public Law for Everyone , Mark Elliott has an excellent post on the UK Supreme Court's recent decision in R. (New London Colleg...
Monday, 29 July 2013

Furthering Substantive Equality through Administrative Law: Charter Values in Education

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Angela Cameron and I have posted our forthcoming Supreme Court Law Review essay on Charter values and administrative decision-making in th...
Friday, 26 July 2013

Functus Officio in Administrative Law

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A long-running battle being waged by employees of Health Canada against their employer's drug-approval procedures gives a glimpse of the...
Wednesday, 24 July 2013

Child Adoption and the Rule against Bias

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Nova Scotia (Community Services) v. T.G. , 2012 NSCA 43 is a sad case about adoption. Sad because of the facts and sad because lengthy liti...
Tuesday, 23 July 2013

Making Adverse Findings against a Party Who Withdraws an Appeal is a Breach of Procedural Fairness

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Somewhat obvious, one would have thought! One can imagine the surprise of the applicant in Can-Euro Investments Ltd. v. Ollive Properties Lt...
Monday, 22 July 2013

General Norms, Individualized Decisions and Procedural Fairness

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Economical Mutual Insurance Company v. British Columbia (Information and Privacy Commissioner) , 2013 BCSC 903 is a very interesting case. ...