Case citations exist primarily for the purpose of enabling a researcher to locate the full text of a judgment or
the decision of an administrative tribunal.
Justice Karakatsanis, writing for the majority, held that courts should give broad deference to
the decisions of administrative tribunals.
Although the Court of Appeal recognized that courts must give deference to
the decisions of administrative tribunals, the gist of its decision was that sometimes a tribunal just has to «get it right», and that a legal interpretation that is «reasonable» is not always good enough; that it should be «correct».
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
For example, many registers of public documents, and
decisions of administrative tribunals are already accessible to the public.
This is an interesting decision that addresses what is clearly a problematic approach to providing access to
decisions of administrative tribunals.
There are very good reasons to think the courts should defer strongly» to
the decision of an administrative tribunal.
Decisions of administrative tribunals.
The Rule of Law requires
decisions of administrative tribunals (among other public actors) that are not arbitrary.
Data builds of unreported court cases and
the decisions of administrative tribunals with little or no value added content no longer meet current needs.
It should be possible to work with the administrative tribunals to deliver case digests with
every decision of an administrative tribunal.
Not exact matches
For example, if Law A says that courts may review all
administrative tribunal decisions on questions
of fact and law, and Law B says that in the context
of Tribunal X, a court may only review a
decision on questions
of law, Law B will clearly prevail as the more specific statute.
We also represent employers before all levels
of courts in wrongful dismissal actions, occupational health and safety matters, judicial reviews
of decisions made by
administrative tribunals and to obtain injunctive relief.
In my view, in order to justify a Charter limit, the record
of evidence considered by the line
decision maker should demonstrate the elements
of accountability, intelligibility, adequacy and transparency courts expect from
administrative tribunals.
Administrative law as a practice area sometimes gets a bad rap for being comprised
of Byzantine rules
of procedure (often completely unique to the specific
tribunal in question), frustrating
decision makers, and shifting standards
of review.
The Court decided that (a) the process
of surcharging by
administrative bodies engaged the criminal part
of Article 6 and (b) the Austrian courts hearing appeals against the surcharges did not have the jurisdiction to carry out a «full review»
of the
decision to surcharge; only that way could one turn the combination
of administrative decision and court
decision into a
decision by a «
tribunal» complying with Article 6.
The category
of administrative decision - maker in the case — whether it be cabinet, a minister, or perhaps an adjudicative
tribunal — is obviously
of some relevance but we should not be making absolute assertions based thereon.
The
decisions of the Central
Administrative Tribunals and district courts, and case schedules from the Supreme Court and High Courts, would also be made available soon.
This means that in administering a law or making regulations to aid the administration
of laws, a Minister
of the Crown or an
administrative body such as an agency or
tribunal can not make a
decision or a regulation that infringes on our Charter rights.
Justice Manderscheid touches on this argument only at the very end
of his judgment by (1) simply declaring that the Commissioner's
decision not to follow these earlier interpretations was reasonable (at para 83); and (2) stating that in any event the doctrine
of stare decisis does not apply to
administrative tribunals such that the Commission is entitled to completely depart from an earlier interpretation (at para 84).
One
of my problems with anonymization under family law is that it does not bear any comprehensive test
of coherence along all «material world» publication policies or rights
of all privacy sensible fields
of law such as criminal but even more so
administrative decisions such as rent
tribunal and social welfare.
The 2 - 1
decision by a Patent and Trademark Office
administrative tribunal heightens pressure on the Washington football club to change its name following decades
of criticism by Native Americans and others who say it is a slur.
It would be wrong as a matter
of principle if the secretary
of state for the Home Department could circumvent the
decision of an immigration appeal
tribunal by an
administrative decision.
The first issue relates to the dismissal
of the appeal
of the
decision of the hearing
tribunal when the
administrative appeal
tribunal split evenly 2 to 2.
By way
of training, I'm a lawyer and have a history
of sitting on
administrative tribunals as a
decision maker, and also previous tot hat, practicing civil litigation at a Vancouver firm.
Although this
decision was based on the wording
of the ATA bylaws, it does send a clear message to
administrative bodies that an
administrative appeal
tribunal should not be constituted
of an even number
of panel members.
In order to protect courts
of law and
administrative tribunals, a principle
of deliberative secrecy applies to shield those
decision - makers from having to make transparent or provide information in regards to the intellectual or other process by which they may have arrived at their
decision except as may stand on the record within their reasons for judgment or opinion.
There are interesting and useful things in there about the standard
of review on procedural fairness where an
administrative tribunal is reconsidering a
decision, and about the interaction between
decisions of the Provincial Court and
administrative tribunals.
Drawing on the
decision - making processes
of comparable federal
administrative tribunals and recent civil justice reforms in Canada, this report makes several recommendations as to -LSB-...] Read more
provisions which immunize
decision makers from liability «are not so uncommon or unusual in free and democratic societies as to render them constitutionally unreasonable» (citing a number
of cases immunizing
administrative tribunal members from personal liability for their
decisions);
Judicial Review is the process whereby a judge
of the Alberta Court
of Queen's Bench reviews the
decision of an
administrative board or
tribunal.
Sharma details a number
of decisions from
administrative tribunals and lower courts that cite Wikipedia as a source for definitions
of various terms and concepts.
Perhaps the authority
of obtaining personal information should better be placed with
administrative tribunals who have the technical skills to make an informed
decision, rather than the regular courts who lack the skill and where there is no expectation
of having the skills to address accuracy and correctness.
It covers judges and, in most cases, all others involved in judicial
decision - making such as the members
of administrative tribunals.
Brief introduction dealing with
decisions of government agencies, how
tribunals work, the principle
of fairness in
administrative matters, challenging a
decision and participating in public interest matters.
Officers receiving your refugee claim will decide whether it is eligible for referral to the Immigration and Refugee Board
of Canada (IRB) which is an independent
administrative tribunal that makes
decisions on immigration and refugee matters.
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.
(d) a certified copy
of an order, ruling, judgment or
decision of a court,
tribunal, board,
administrative body or commission in Canada or an arbitrator disposing
of the Complaint.
Apart from that, the only «fix» is for the Legislature to be more specific as to the scope
of appeals that may be taken from
administrative tribunal decisions and the breadth
of the court's role on appeal.
Ontario employment lawyers had another interesting year with a number
of provocative and interesting
decisions coming from this country's courts and
administrative tribunals.
We keep governments accountable by challenging their
decisions in the courts or
administrative tribunals on behalf
of our clients.
A lingering uneasiness remains over the perceived risk that
Tribunals may permit the
administrative role
of legal assistants to become unsupervised, or, even worse, to morph into that
of a delegated
decision maker.
[xxv] This is significant because in appeals originating from
decisions of statutory bodies with great expertise in areas
of economic regulation the Irish courts have recognised that they «should be slow to interfere with the
decisions of expert
administrative tribunals».
Ian can provide in - house training for
Tribunals and other
administrative decision makers on all aspects
of conducting fair hearings, including
decision - writing.
Smith v. Mental Health
Tribunal for Scotland2006 SLT 347 Outer House; Judicial Review
of administrative decision re failure to fix a
tribunal hearing within a mandatory time limit.
At the
administrative tribunal level, there are 50 %
of self - publishers with only one fifth
of them offering reasonably good access to
decisions.
WCAT interpreted the common law power to reopen an appeal to cure a jurisdictional defect as «authority to set aside one
of its
decisions», and considered the standard
of review set out in s. 58
of the
Administrative Tribunals Act (ATA) applicable.
Section 253.1 (5) provides that the section must not be construed as limiting the
tribunal's ability at the request
of a party has been held to derive from the 1989 Supreme Court
of Canada's
decision in Chandler v. Alberta Association
of Architects, in which the majority held that an
administrative tribunal may revisit a
decision only if authorized by statute or if there has been a slip or error within certain exceptions.
A recent
decision of the Federal Court
of Appeal («FCA») has muddied the waters regarding the role
of the
administrative tribunals in Crown - Aboriginal consultation and effectively diminished the duty
of tribunals to assess the adequacy
of Crown consultation in respect
of project applications before them.
But the Supreme Court's other
decisions make it clear that courts must defer to an
administrative tribunal's interpretation
of law, except on legal questions considered «
of central importance for the legal system» (a category that notably includes constitutional questions).