Two recent court decisions help to illustrate different views on how adjudicators can engage in their community — both in - person and virtually — and may help to focus a public discussion on reasonable limits to social media
activity of adjudicators.
The concern about public
activity of adjudicators mostly relates to perceptions of impartiality.
Not exact matches
Outgoing schools
adjudicator Ian Craig has said that by giving parents credit for Church
activities such as bell ringing and church cleaning, some faith schools - though not specifically Church
of England ones - were inadvertently «skewing» their intakes.
After careful analysis
of what is a commercial
activity, the
adjudicator decided to give it a broad interpretation for the purpose
of Alberta's PIPA.
On February 11, 2013, an
adjudicator of the Alberta Office
of the Information and Privacy Commissioner decided that Alberta's Legal Aid Society is subject to the Personal Information Protection Act (PIPA), with consequences for all non-profit organizations that conduct
activities with a commercial character.
The use
of social media by
adjudicators and judges continues to attract attention, but there has been little movement in defining what is appropriate
activity.