But in
administrative law, the combination
of a refusal to extend a constitutional requirement
of adjudicative
independence to
administrative tribunals and the emphasis on deference to such tribunals»
decisions even on legal questions blurs that line into invisibility.
The question, it found, was settled by the Supreme Court's
decision in Ocean Port Hotel Ltd. v. British Columbia (General Manager, Liquor Control and Licensing Branch), 2001 SCC 52, [2001] 2 S.C.R. 781, which held that the principle
of judicial
independence did not apply to
administrative tribunals, except insofar as their
decisions concerned rights protected by sections 7 or 11 (d)
of the Canadian Charter
of Rights and Freedoms.