The bias was obvious to me, but it was some time before I found what I recognized as extraordinarily incriminating evidence: a speech that the author of the BCCA judgment had given some years earlier to the BC
Council of Administrative Tribunals at a function that I reasonably assume was attended by some, if not all, of the Vice Chairs of the tribunal I had successfully challenged in the lower court.
They are also the same organizations that, in 1998, in a speech to a conference of the BC
Council of Administrative Tribunals (BCCAT), Supreme Court of Canada Justice Beverley McLachlin (as she then was) described as «dispute resolving bodies» [that are not] «regulatory or licensing bodies» [and that] «seem to be doing what the courts have traditionally done.»
Presenter, Manitoba
Council of Administrative Tribunals (MCAT) annual conference, Developments in Administrative Law, May 2017
Bob Friedland was also the first Chief Lawyer for the Nenqay Deni Yajelhtig Law Center, was a Member of the Education Committee of the British Columbia
Council of Administrative Tribunals; a Barrister & Solicitor; and a Member of the Law Society of British Columbia.
She was a member of the Board of Directors of the Canadian
Council of Administrative Tribunals (CCAT), was a founder of the Conference of Ontario Boards and Agencies (COBA) and is a founding member of the Society of Ontario Adjudicators and Regulators (SOAR).
As noted by former BC Attorney General Geoff Plant at a BC
Council of Administrative Tribunals conference many years ago, it was no surprise that long and expensive legal proceedings (both in the courts and at administrative tribunals) and the cost of legal advice had resulted in the emergence of private on - line legal services that offered alternative means of settling disputes.
In 2005, the Canadian
Council of Administrative Tribunals published a short book on literacy and access to administrative justice.
Not exact matches
Administrative law is different than regular law proceedings because there is a
council or
tribunal that will oversee your case not a judge they will decide the outcome
of your case.
David was the co-recipient
of the 2009 Medal from the
Council of Canadian
Administrative Tribunals, and in 2012 received the Distinguished Service Award for Legal Scholarship from the Law Society
of Alberta and the Alberta Branch
of the Canadian Bar Association.
Anne was the co-recipient
of the 2009 Medal from the
Council of Canadian
Administrative Tribunals for contributions to Canadian administrative law, as well as the recipient of the Law Society of Alberta and Canadian Bar Association's Award for Distinguished Service to t
Administrative Tribunals for contributions to Canadian
administrative law, as well as the recipient of the Law Society of Alberta and Canadian Bar Association's Award for Distinguished Service to t
administrative law, as well as the recipient
of the Law Society
of Alberta and Canadian Bar Association's Award for Distinguished Service to the Profession.
He appears regularly before government licensing bodies and
administrative tribunals including the Manitoba Clean Environment Commission and Municipal Board, municipal
councils, provincial legislative committees and in all levels
of court in Manitoba and in the Federal Court in connection with environmental, resource, regulatory municipal, and property issues.
The judicial
tribunals on which this book focuses are the same executive branch organizations that, as noted above, were called «judicial tribunals» in the McRuer Report; the same organizations that, in 1990, Ed Ratushny's Report on the Independence of Federal Administrative Tribunals and Agencies described as «tribunals which are adjudicative» and for which it recommended the label «tribunal» be exclusively reserved; and the same organizations that in 1991 the late Chief Justice of Canada Antonio Lamer, in a keynote speech to the conference of the Council of Canadian Administrative Tribunals, referred to as bodies that are «created to operate essentially as adjudicators... in a manner that is similar to the function of the judiciary... [and] expected to dispense justice in the same sense as the courts of la
tribunals on which this book focuses are the same executive branch organizations that, as noted above, were called «judicial
tribunals» in the McRuer Report; the same organizations that, in 1990, Ed Ratushny's Report on the Independence of Federal Administrative Tribunals and Agencies described as «tribunals which are adjudicative» and for which it recommended the label «tribunal» be exclusively reserved; and the same organizations that in 1991 the late Chief Justice of Canada Antonio Lamer, in a keynote speech to the conference of the Council of Canadian Administrative Tribunals, referred to as bodies that are «created to operate essentially as adjudicators... in a manner that is similar to the function of the judiciary... [and] expected to dispense justice in the same sense as the courts of la
tribunals» in the McRuer Report; the same organizations that, in 1990, Ed Ratushny's Report on the Independence
of Federal
Administrative Tribunals and Agencies described as «tribunals which are adjudicative» and for which it recommended the label «tribunal» be exclusively reserved; and the same organizations that in 1991 the late Chief Justice of Canada Antonio Lamer, in a keynote speech to the conference of the Council of Canadian Administrative Tribunals, referred to as bodies that are «created to operate essentially as adjudicators... in a manner that is similar to the function of the judiciary... [and] expected to dispense justice in the same sense as the courts of la
Tribunals and Agencies described as «
tribunals which are adjudicative» and for which it recommended the label «tribunal» be exclusively reserved; and the same organizations that in 1991 the late Chief Justice of Canada Antonio Lamer, in a keynote speech to the conference of the Council of Canadian Administrative Tribunals, referred to as bodies that are «created to operate essentially as adjudicators... in a manner that is similar to the function of the judiciary... [and] expected to dispense justice in the same sense as the courts of la
tribunals which are adjudicative» and for which it recommended the label «
tribunal» be exclusively reserved; and the same organizations that in 1991 the late Chief Justice
of Canada Antonio Lamer, in a keynote speech to the conference
of the
Council of Canadian
Administrative Tribunals, referred to as bodies that are «created to operate essentially as adjudicators... in a manner that is similar to the function of the judiciary... [and] expected to dispense justice in the same sense as the courts of la
Tribunals, referred to as bodies that are «created to operate essentially as adjudicators... in a manner that is similar to the function
of the judiciary... [and] expected to dispense justice in the same sense as the courts
of law.»
Tribunals v courts Under TCEA an
Administrative Justice and Tribunals Council (AJTC) was established on 1 November 2007 to replace the Council on Tribunals but with an expanded remit to keep the whole landscape of administrative justice
Administrative Justice and
Tribunals Council (AJTC) was established on 1 November 2007 to replace the
Council on
Tribunals but with an expanded remit to keep the whole landscape
of administrative justice
administrative justice under review.
Thomas goes on to become the chairman
of the
Administrative Justice and
Tribunals Council.