Most importantly, Justice Rothstein is right to point out that the majority's pronouncements on the role that exemptions from fees can play in a constitutional
hearing fees scheme are contradictory.
The Chief Justice decides «to declare
the hearing fee scheme as it stands unconstitutional and leave it to the legislature or the Lieutenant Governor in Council to enact new provisions, should they choose to do so» (par.
He «take [s] exception to the majority striking down the British Columbia
hearing fee scheme on a novel reading of s. 96 and the rule of law» (par.
Not exact matches
We
heard last week how EA will start a new
scheme starting with the latest Tiger Woods game whereas customers who buys their game new will have a free pass to exclusive online content and modes, then when a person who buys the game as pre-used will have to pay a
fee to gain access to that service.
Such
schemes might also be arranged in association with others, for example, in conjunction with members of the Local Law Society, in order to provide representation for both sides at FDR
hearings or at first
hearing dispute resolution appointments in children cases for a fixed
fee.
All the parties arguing that
hearing fees are constitutional claimed that the exemptions were an integral part of the
fees scheme.