Sentences with phrase «good substantive decisions»

Within the next 20 years, provincial ombudsman offices came into being in Canada and began responding to complaints about instances where those good substantive decisions were not being made — but something else was happening too.

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They are also called to make substantive decisions about the common good, decisions that may leave a lasting mark on the community, for good or ill.

The NCAA when hamstrung by red tape has its share of issues, but given the decision - making in the past, the idea of the NCAA and schools riding a rocket docket toward substantive change seems fraught with peril as well.

What is clear is that to address political inequality — which is a precondition to achieving the broader goals raised by the Great Charter Convention — we must restore substantive democratic power over how our political and economic institutions are organised, thereby better enabling individuals to come together to make collective decisions that shape their lives, communities and workplaces.

Every layer of educational bureaucracy should infuse students as well, positioning in them in powerful roles that effect not only individual students, but all students; not as recipients, but as active partners who design, implement, critically assess, and make substantive decisions about the education system as a whole.

The primary issue in substantive judicial review should always be what is the nature of the question decided by the administrative decision - maker and who as between the judiciary and the executive or its delegates is best - suited to have the final say in answering it.

A committee is not, however (and this may be the most important aspect of the decision), «otherwise required to hear his evidence as to whether or not the substantive allegation against him is or is not well - founded; that is not the issue on the application for an interim order.»

From the perspective of any administrative decision - maker, isn't the import of this sort of decision that it is better to provide coherent reasons to survive substantive judicial review?

The result for standard of review analysis is that the presumption of deference to substantive decisions made by statutory tribunals should be alive and well in Alberta, but it should be noted there is a growing resistance to the presumption not only at the Alberta Court of Appeal but also within the Supreme Court of Canada.

On substantive legitimate expectations, I take the side of the Court of Appeal in Coughlan, arguing in the teeth of strong criticism of that decision that there are indeed good reasons for courts to enforce substantive legitimate expectations, though I also observe that the Court of Appeal probably went too far in one important respect.

'' [Potential child advocates] could perform a public function by lobbying for the replacement of the best interest of the child test with a more determinative substantive rule... as the substituted rule, I suggest the primary caretaker rule, which rewards past care and concern for children and minimizes the role and power of the helping professionals in custody decision making.

The self - determination requirement of mediator ethics appears to make the nature of the process in each case, as well as the substantive decisions, dependent upon the consent of the parties.