assuring compliance with statutes and procedural
fairness requirements by regulatory bodies, and seeking court review where necessary,
Not exact matches
However, if high - emitting nations take the «equity» and «
fairness»
requirement seriously, they will need to not only reduce ghg emissions at very, very rapid rates, a conclusion that follows from the steepness of the remaining budget curves alone, but also they will have to reduce their ghg emissions much faster than poor developing nations and faster than the global reductions curves entailed only
by the need to stay within a carbon budget.
It seems to me that the
fairness requirement must be addressed
by recognizing that perfect
fairness is impossible and that eliminating burdens for some will often impose burdens on others and
by focusing on how to practically mitigate unfair burdens.
70 While the principles of
fairness and flexibility have informed the modern approach to the application of proprietary estoppel, as adopted
by this Court in its jurisprudence (see Idle - O Apartments Inc. v. Charlyn Investments Ltd., 2014 BCCA 451 (B.C. C.A.) at para. 49; Sabey v. von Hopffgarten Estate, 2014 BCCA 360 (B.C. C.A.); Scholz v. Scholz, 2013 BCCA 309 (B.C. C.A.) at para. 31; Sykes v. Rosebery Parklands Development Society, 2011 BCCA 15 (B.C. C.A.) at paras. 44 - 46; Erickson v. Jones, 2008 BCCA 379 (B.C. C.A.) at paras. 52 - 57; Trethewey - Edge Dyking (District) v. Coniagas Ranches Ltd. [2003 CarswellBC 657 (B.C. C.A.)-RSB- at paras. 64 - 73; Zelmer v. Victor Projects Ltd. (1997), 34 B.C.L.R. (3d) 125 (B.C. C.A.) at paras. 36 - 37), there remains a necessary balancing between an overly broad application of the doctrine under the general guise of «unfairness» and an overly narrow application of the doctrine that places excessive weight on the technical
requirements of the doctrine.
The contents of the
requirements of procedural
fairness may be affected
by what is said or done in the course of the decision - making process.
Where these two
requirements are satisfied, liability may be imposed even though the «but for» test is not satisfied, as it otherwise would offend basic notions of
fairness and justice to deny liability
by the rigid application of the «but for» test.
The important consideration in determining whether a tribunal has been «established
by law» is not whether it was pre-established or established for a specific purpose or situation; what is important is that it be set up
by a competent organ in keeping with the relevant legal procedures, and should that it observes the
requirements of procedural
fairness.
In concluding that it was not permissible to rely on information publicly available elsewhere, Lord Sumption stated that he was influenced
by the deliberate drafting of section 393 FSMA with regards to
fairness and the
requirement for the material identifying the individual to come from the notice itself, as well as concern over the impact on the FCA's effectiveness if section 393 were to be interpreted differently.
As Annis J. put it in David v. Canada (Attorney General), 2014 FC 358, where the question was «whether the acknowledged
requirement of thoroughness of an investigation
by the Commission is to be considered as part of the reasonableness analysis or whether it is a matter of procedural
fairness subject to a correctness standard of review» (at para. 53),
2012 was, however, a year when courts emphasized in various contexts the need for regulators to be increasingly sophisticated,
by dealing with less obvious but nonetheless binding external
requirements, such as Charter rights and human rights, as well as with «internal» procedural
fairness rights, and a possible need for health regulators in BC, at least, to deal with single - instances of «negligent» conduct as an aspect of competence.
That power is also defined
by the applicable law and
requirements of equality and
fairness that underlie the arbitration process.
In those exceptional cases where these two
requirements are satisfied, liability may be imposed, even though the «but for» test is not satisfied, because it would offend basic notions of
fairness and justice to deny liability
by applying a «but for» approach.
It is even clearer that «
fairness and justice» is a third precondition for the use of Resurfice material contribution; «
fairness and justice» is not established merely
by satisfying the impossibility and ambit of risk
requirements; and it seems the plaintiff has the onus of proof on the
fairness and justice
requirement, too.