Thursday, 3 October 2013

Procedural Fairness before Tribunals of Inquiry: Mr. Chevrette and the Charbonneau Commission

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Quebec's Charbonneau Commission is continuing to make headlines. Most recently, the testimony of Ken Pereira, a former trade union activ...
Wednesday, 2 October 2013

Mark Elliott on Substantive Review

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Mark Elliott has a very interesting post on substantive review on the UK Constitutional Law Blog . Here are some choice extracts, with so...
Friday, 27 September 2013

Procedural Fairness in Public Sector Bargaining

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Public Service Alliance of Canada v. Canada (Attorney General) , 2013 FC 91 is an illuminating case on many issues, especially procedural ...
Thursday, 26 September 2013

Administrative Law and the Next Supreme Court of Canada Justice

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With Justice Morris Fish's retirement, the federal government must appoint a new judge from the province of Québec to the Supreme Court ...
Wednesday, 25 September 2013

Audrey Macklin on Divito

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Audrey Macklin sent on some perceptive, though critical, comments on my post on last week's Supreme Court of Canada decision in Divito...
Friday, 20 September 2013

Positive and Negative Mobility Rights: Divito v. Canada (Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness), 2013 SCC 47

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In Divito v. Canada (Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness) , 2013 SCC 47 , handed down yesterday, the Supreme Court of Canada w...

Public Interest Immunity and Good Record Management

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Where disclosure of documents would be detrimental to the public interest, courts have the power to refuse it (see e.g. here ). So-called pu...