However, the Court has also made it clear that administrative tribunals can not rely on deliberative secrecy to the same extent
as judicial tribunals.»
Not exact matches
These include statutory rights of appeal,
judicial review and scrutiny by independent panels and
tribunals, such
as the Process Review Panel, the Ombudsman and the Independent Commission Against Corruption.
As Helen Rawlings explains, «the auto de fe was a part - religious, part -
judicial ceremony that taught a lesson to all those present, the faithful and the non-faithful, of what the consequences of non-submission might be before the
tribunal offaith on earth and its counterpart, the divine court on high.»
This is subject to
judicial reasoning
as all interpretations are brought before a public
tribunal of judgment.
Bordeaux Court Deliberates on Fraud Case Involving More Than 1 Million Bottles of Wine: A Bordeaux
judicial tribunal is weighing the fates of eight men accused of trying to pass off more than 1 million bottles of cheap plonk
as more expensive Bordeaux from top appellations...
Recall that Wike barely two weeks ago publicly denounced the statement issued by the adviser which described the Supreme Court dismissal of his appeal on relocation of election
tribunal to Abuja and the nullification of his election
as»
judicial gang up» and «Judicial terrorism
judicial gang up» and «
Judicial terrorism
Judicial terrorism».
The
tribunal, in its ruling, agreed with the argument of Justice Ngwuta that,
as a serving Justice of the Supreme Court, he could not be tried in any court or
tribunal, except after he had been subjected to the investigatory and disciplinary processes of the National
Judicial Council (NJC).
The proposed changes include: applying acts that affect litigation in court to litigation in the CRT, setting time limits for
judicial reviews, ensuring that the CRT decisions are enforceable by the courts and establishing the CRT
as an expert
tribunal for all matters except general small claims and motor vehicle liability issues.
The recent announcement by Carswell that its multi-volume print work «Words and Phrases Judicially Defined in Canadian Courts and
Tribunals» is available online means that both Westlawecarswell and LexisNexis Quicklaw now offer access to edited extracts of of the meaning of words and phrases
as discussed in
judicial decisions.
The Court's contention that EU law provides for a complete system of remedies, or at least remedies «sufficient to ensure effective
judicial protection for individual parties in the fields covered by EU law» (Case C - 64 / 16, para. 34) has to be understood
as a formalistic conception in the sense that BITs clearly provide more complete and effective remedies to investors than EU law or domestic law — and this understanding has been at the heart of the reasoning of arbitral
tribunals in cases where they have rejected the argument that intra-EU BITs are incompatible with EU law.
Since those
tribunals are situated outside the EU
judicial system, it is difficult to see how the Court's concern would not extend to them
as well.
We offer broad experience in
judicial review challenges before the Administrative Court and other courts and
tribunals (including the Competition Appeal Tribunal, the Information Tribunal and the Court of First Instance
as well
as the European Courts).
We regularly act in references to the Court of Justice of the European Union,
as well
as in the UK courts and
tribunals when EU law issues arise — for instance in
judicial review claims, tax and social security
tribunals, employment
tribunals and damages actions.
If you think that the Legal Services Commission has let you down, the Presidency of the Social Security and Child Support Appeal
Tribunals is up for grabs from next April at # 129,900 per annum so long
as you have had
judicial experience in a salaried or fee paid capacity.
In reaching this decision, the High Court undertook a review of past Singapore case law and legal commentary on the nature and purpose of Article 34 (2)(a)(iii), ultimately deciding that «
as a matter of policy, to hold that Art 34 (2)(a)(iii) does not apply, where no other limb under Art 34 (2) would be engaged, would allow an arbitral
tribunal to immunize its awards against
judicial scrutiny by delivering its conclusions on both jurisdiction and merits in a single award», which would have been an «unsatisfactory result».
ILEX fellows have been eligible to apply for selected
judicial roles since November 2008,
as a result of changes brought about by the
Tribunals, Courts and Enforcement Act 2007.
Associação Sindical dos Juízes Portugueses thus advances the proposition that Member States are to set up all bodies that may potentially rule on a matter «covered by EU law» (whatever else they do, or however rare the occasion may be that they actually have to have anything to do with EU law)
as bona fide «courts and
tribunals» safely tucked into the EU
judicial hierarchy.
The scrapping of employment
tribunal fees has been described
as the «most significant
judicial intervention in the history of British employment law» — a statement I would agree with; it's going to make a huge difference and employers need to be prepared.
The Presidents of the Employment
Tribunals in England and Wales and Scotland
judicial consultation seeks views on the proposed revised bands for compensation to injury to feelings in discrimination claims,
as outlined above.
However, in Ferreira da Silva the Court also notes that «the question
as to how the concept of a «transfer of a business» should be interpreted has given rise to a great deal of uncertainty on the part of many national courts and
tribunals» which «shows not only that there are difficulties of interpretation, but also that there is a risk of divergences in
judicial decisions within the European Union» (paragraph 43).
The court decided to review Issues 2, 3, 5 and 6 on a «deferential standard of reasonableness,» but applied correctness to Issues 1 and 4: «While I acknowledge that in the administrative law context a
tribunal may develop its own procedures
as to admissibility without the recognized strictures found in the
judicial rules of evidence, whereas issues # 1 and # 4 principally involve specific questions of law and concurrent issues involving breaches of natural justice or procedural fairness, I will apply a standard of correctness.
This power, known
as the principle of «Kompetenz - Kompetenz» in German or «la compétence de la compétence» in French, is part, and indeed a major part, of the incidental or inherent jurisdiction of any
judicial or arbitral
tribunal, consisting of its «jurisdiction to determine its own jurisdiction.»
However, where most view ADR
as a parallel system that is prior to — and outside — the normal
judicial process (hence the term «alternative»), the CAT innovated by bringing ADR to every stage of its process, from party - to - party negotiation through to decision by a
tribunal member.
On the other hand, all of the statutes clearly refer to an appeal so that it could be argued that the problem was created by the Supreme Court in Dr. Q. when it held that appeals from administrative
tribunals should be considered on the same standard
as judicial review.
It covers judges and, in most cases, all others involved in
judicial decision - making such
as the members of administrative
tribunals.
Decisions of
judicial bodies may be regarded
as carrying greater (political rather than legal) authority than that of arbitral
tribunals.
As to Dr Q, it applies to superior courts except in Québec, where the provincial Cour du Québec hears appeal from administrative tribunals and acts as a judicial review cour
As to Dr Q, it applies to superior courts except in Québec, where the provincial Cour du Québec hears appeal from administrative
tribunals and acts
as a judicial review cour
as a
judicial review court.
Adjudicator Immunity: The court also found, with respect to allegations against the statutory
tribunal members, that
judicial or adjudicator immunity, which applies to both judges and
tribunal members, «prohibits lawsuits against courts and
tribunals based on their actions
as adjudicators» (para. 61).
With the Constitutionalization of
judicial review
as a central feature of the role of the superior courts in the guarantee and enforcement of the rule of law, it may be time for the legal evolution of
judicial review /
tribunal appeals to reach the stage of a comprehensive rationalization.
The problem is simply stated
as follows: Develop a principled approach to reconcile traditional accounts of the rule of law with the modern reality that administrative agencies and statutory
tribunals who do not operate like or resemble the ordinary courts but who nevertheless occupy a large amount of space in our legal system and can not avoid making legal determinations in exercising their statutory duties which often implicate individual rights and interests to a greater extent than
judicial decisions.
In this class of cases, we think the rule of action which should govern the civil courts, founded in a broad and sound view of the relations of church and state under our system of laws, and supported by a preponderating weight of
judicial authority, is that whenever the questions of discipline or of faith or ecclesiastical rule, custom, or law have been decided by the highest of these church judicatories to which the matter has been carried, the legal
tribunals must accept such decisions
as final and
as binding on them in their application to the case before them.
Mark was instructed on behalf of the Equality and Human Rights Commission which intervened in respect of a
judicial review by UNISON of employment
tribunal fees that were acting
as a barrier to tens of thousands of potentially meritous challenges each year.
Represented the United States Trade Representative (USTR)
as respondent in a
judicial review before the Federal Court of Appeal brought by the applicants to question the decision of the Canadian International Trade
Tribunal in an antidumping and subsidy case where the
tribunal held, in favour of the USTR, that there was no injury to the applicants.
He appeared
as counsel at every level of the
judicial system in Ontario and at the Supreme Court of Canada and various administrative
tribunals.
Phil has successfully appeared before the Ontario Superior Court of Justice and
judicial reviews before the Divisional Court
as counsel
as well
as various
Tribunals including the Ontario Labour Relations Board and the Human Rights Tribunal.
Thus it will be seen by these quotations from the opinion that the court, after stating the question it was about to decide in a manner too plain to be misunderstood, proceeded to decide it, and announced,
as the opinion of the
tribunal, that in organizing the
judicial department of the Government in a Territory of the United States, Congress does not act under, and is not restricted by, the third article in the Constitution, and is not bound, in a Territory, to ordain and establish courts in which the judges hold their offices during good behaviour, but may exercise the discretionary power which a State exercises in establishing its
judicial department and regulating the jurisdiction of its courts, and may authorize the Territorial Government to establish, or may itself establish, courts in which the judges hold their offices for a term of years only, and may vest in them
judicial power upon subjects confided to the judiciary of the United States.
After the former Chief Commissioner of the Alberta Human Rights Commission upheld the Director's dismissal of Mr. Caron's complaint
as too trivial to justify a public
tribunal hearing, Mr. Caron filed a
judicial review application seeking to quash the Commissioner's decision.
Michael has appeared
as co-counsel on a number of
judicial reviews or appeals from decisions of the administrative
tribunals, including decisions of the Ontario Municipal Board, the Ontario College of Pharmacists, the Criminal Injuries Compensation Board and the Ontario Securities Commission
As per counsel's interpretation of Dunsmuir v New Brunswick, 2008 SCC 9 (CanLII), Alberta (Information and Privacy Commissioner) v Alberta Teachers» Association, 2011 SCC 61 (CanLII) and Newfoundland and Labrador Nurses» Union v Newfoundland and Labrador (Treasury Board), 2011 SCC 62 (CanLII), where a
tribunal is asked to determine its own jurisdiction over a matter (and interpret its home statute) these determinations are subject to deference on
judicial review.
Consistent with these earlier reports, the Commission strongly favoured statutory appeals over
judicial review
as a simpler mechanism for legal oversight that can be calibrated to address the particularities of statutory
tribunal decisions, and recommended that legislation contain a right of appeal on questions of law (and in certain instances on questions of fact) to the courts from the exercise of statutory power with only a few exceptions.
This will, to some extent at least, depend upon issues of practicability which are much better suited to resolution in the employment
tribunal proceedings (currently sisted pending the resolution of this case) than in
judicial review proceedings such
as these.
Peninsula Business Services v Rees (2009) UKEAT / 0333/08 / RN The EAT remitted the case to a fresh
tribunal on the basis of apparent
judicial bias arising from the ET judge's trenchant derogatory views on businesses such
as that of the appellant made close to trial.
For the individuals exercising
judicial rights - determining functions
as members of
judicial tribunals, I use the traditional label: «adjudicator.»
Nevertheless, although that label does reflect what
judicial tribunals do, it does not sufficiently reflect the fact that the important thing about the adjudicative functions of such
tribunals is their status
as an integral part of our justice system.
Moreover, the courts themselves have from time to time applied it to
tribunals exercising
judicial functions, so that it has a respectable common law provenance
as well.
Under this principle, the Federal Court of Appeal has held that a
tribunal can not use
judicial review
as an opportunity to «amend, vary, qualify or supplement its reasons»: Canada (Attorney General) v. Quadrini, 2010 FCA 246 (CanLII).
Justice Rothstein, writing for the majority, described the limits on the content of a
tribunal's arguments on
judicial review
as the rule against «bootstrapping».
But at the very least it defines more clearly the scope for supervision of an employer's behaviour, the role of the employment
tribunal and,
as Collins (op cit, p 40) puts it, the principles for the settling of the boundaries for
judicial intervention.
It is for these reasons that I have decided to continue
as I began, referring to these statutory, non-court organizations whose functions are purely or mainly
judicial as «administrative
judicial tribunals,» or, for convenience, «
judicial tribunals.»
As I continue to emphasize, the administrative justice with which I am concerned includes only the exercise of
judicial rights - determining functions by executive branch
tribunals and their members.