Data builds of unreported court cases and the decisions
of administrative tribunals with little or no value added content no longer meet current needs.
When presented with the occasion to opine on the compatibility
of administrative tribunals with the entrenchment of judicial power in Labour Relations Board of Saskatchewan v. John East Iron Works, [vii] the position of the judges was unequivocal: the Board's functions represented a «striking departure from the traditional conception of a court» [viii] and were designed instead to give effect to the «new conception of industrial relations», [ix] something that could only be achieved by technocrats familiar with the domain and qualified to «bring an experience and knowledge acquired extra-judicially to the solution of their problems».
Not exact matches
Working closely
with expert actuaries and economists, he has tried two
of these cases to
administrative tribunals in the states
of Alabama and California.
An
administrative tribunal could allow the flexibility
of Mr. Boyd's suggested system,
with a lawyer making the binding order at the end
of the process.
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.
Thus, the Board may be in a position in passing upon question
of fact in the course
of dealing
with, for example, an
administrative matter, to Act
with a sure judgment on facts and circumstances which to a
tribunal not possessing the Board's equipment and advantages might yield only a vague or ambiguous impression.
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While focusing on litigation, Cam has assisted employers
with a wide range
of other matters, including the preparation
of employment contracts and employment policies, collective bargaining and dispute resolution before labour, employment, human rights and other
administrative tribunals.
The bastard adjunct
of family law, child support, is dealt
with mostly in
administrative tribunals.
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.
If
administrative tribunals are required to act like courts,
with a corresponding reliance on legalistic procedures, the advantages
of simplicity, accessibility, and flexibility that they offer will be lost.
The parties can take steps to mitigate this risk, including (i) selection
of the seat and the
administrative body
with confidentiality in mind, (ii) restricting third - party witnesses to «need - to - know» information and (iii) the use
of and appropriate confidentiality provision, either in the arbitration agreement itself or in the container agreement or in a «protective order» entered by the
tribunal.
art. 19 (2)(providing that the parties may, at their discretion, and as agreed in writing, provide mutual assistance
with respect to «hearings or any investigations before any court,
administrative agency or
administrative tribunal with respect to the imposition
of civil or
administrative sanctions»).
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.
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.
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.
It held that,
with rare exceptions,
administrative tribunals with the authority to decide questions
of law, are courts
of competent jurisdiction within the meaning
of s. 24 (1)
of the Charter and can grant Charter remedies in in the course
of carrying out their statutory mandates.
In general, the statutory human rights system in Canada is characterized by the presence
of prominent, accessible, specialized public institutions that embody and reinforce public and legislative policy against discrimination, including but not limited to
administrative tribunals with broad discretion to award non-monetary and structural remedies, at no cost to the individual complainant.
For example: (a) subject to confirmation
of appointment by the BVI IAC, parties are free to nominate an individual for appointment as arbitrator, whether or not that person is included in the BVI IAC's panel
of arbitrators (article 7 (4)-RRB-; (b) the Secretariat has the power to change time periods under these Rules (e.g. articles 4 (1), 8 (2)(b), 9 (3) and 41 (4)-RRB-; (c) arbitrations can be brought to the BVI IAC under contracts and other legal instruments (e.g., article 23 (1)-RRB-; (ix) provide that the responsibility for fixing fees and expenses
of the arbitral
tribunal, the costs
of expert advice and
of other assistance required by the arbitral
tribunal and the
administrative expenses
of the BVI IAC lies
with the Secretariat (article 42).
Supreme Court
of Canada confirms that
administrative tribunals with the authority to decide questions
of law are courts
of competent jurisdiction under s. 24
of the Charter.
The Supreme Court
of Canada has confirmed that
administrative tribunals with the authority to decide questions
of law are courts
of competent jurisdiction under s. 24
of the Canadian Charter
of Rights and Freedoms.
We have the substantive legal knowledge and the first - hand experience before the courts and
tribunals and
with all levels
of government to competently navigate you through the complex web
of legal and
administrative obstacles that lie in your path and to get back to calmer waters.
Jeremy has also sat on a number
of Tribunals for the Conservative Party to deal
with internal matters which principally raise public law or
administrative law issues.
He appears regularly before government licensing bodies and
administrative tribunals including the Manitoba Clean Environment Commission and Municipal Board, municipal councils, provincial legislative committees and in all levels
of court in Manitoba and in the Federal Court in connection
with environmental, resource, regulatory municipal, and property issues.
Ontario employment lawyers had another interesting year
with a number
of provocative and interesting decisions coming from this country's courts and
administrative tribunals.
Bluntly stated, yet
with great respect; the law has spent more than forty years looking for the true jurisdictional question, twenty years trying to assess the relative expertise
of tribunals, ten years trying to convince everyone
of a meaningful distinction between two deferential standards
of review and now another possible lifetime wandering the
administrative galaxy looking for questions
of law
of central importance to the legal system.
Dan also has experience as a business litigator and has dealt
with a wide variety
of issues in state and federal courts and
administrative tribunals.
«FAs recognition
of the value
of patents has increased dramatically over the past decade, so too has the amount
of litigation associated
with patent enforcement and validity challenges before U.S. district courts, the U.S. International Trade Commission (USITC), and before the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office (USPTO) In response to this ramp up, both in terms
of volume and complexity,
tribunals have come to recognize the substantive, procedural, and
administrative challenges posed by patent litigation.
Craig has represented individuals in proceedings
with many professional bodies including the College
of Teachers, College
of Registered Nurses, College
of Dental Surgeons and individuals before
administrative tribunals including the Employment Standards Tribunals, Worker's Compensation Board, and B.C. Human Rights
tribunals including the Employment Standards
Tribunals, Worker's Compensation Board, and B.C. Human Rights
Tribunals, Worker's Compensation Board, and B.C. Human Rights Tribunal.
I also observed the concerns set out by a string
of concurring opinions in the Supreme Court
of Canada which caution against a blanket presumption
of deference towards statutory interpretation by
administrative tribunals of their home legislation and assert the need for deference to rest on a more principled foundation like demonstrated expertise or familiarity
of the
tribunal with that legislation.
Together the two cases suggest that a part
of the Court — here the majority — is uncomfortable
with the presumption
of reasonableness that in recent years has been granted to
administrative tribunals interpreting their own statutes.
Expertise arises from the specialization
of functions
of administrative tribunals like the Board which have a habitual familiarity
with the legislative scheme they administer: ``... in many instances, those working day to day in the implementation
of frequently complex
administrative schemes have or will develop a considerable degree
of expertise or field sensitivity to the imperatives and nuances
of the legislative regime» (Dunsmuir, at para. 49, quoting D. J. Mullan, «Establishing the Standard
of Review: The Struggle for Complexity?»
The court confirmed that s. 58
of the
Administrative Tribunals Act applied to the HPRB, such that a court would not interfere
with findings
of fact or law, or an exercise
of discretion by the HPRB, unless patently unreasonable, e.g., where discretion is exercised arbitrarily or in bad faith, for an improper purpose, based on entirely or predominantly irrelevant factors, or fails to account for statutory requirements.
[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».
You may calculate the
Administrative Fee and the arbitral
tribunal's fee
with the help
of the calculator.
First, «because
of their expertise and familiarity
with the relevant
administrative scheme,
tribunals may in many cases be well positioned to help the reviewing court reach a just outcome» (at para. 53).
At the
administrative tribunal level, there are 50 %
of self - publishers
with only one fifth
of them offering reasonably good access to decisions.
It was reasonable for the
Administrative Tribunal of Québec to conclude that, under the Act respecting administrative justice, a person who is not an advocate may, in certain proceedings, do everything needed for the representation of the Minister of Employment before that tribunal's social affairs division, and this power is not in conflict with the Act respecting the Barr
Administrative Tribunal of Québec to conclude that, under the Act respecting
administrative justice, a person who is not an advocate may, in certain proceedings, do everything needed for the representation of the Minister of Employment before that tribunal's social affairs division, and this power is not in conflict with the Act respecting the Barr
administrative justice, a person who is not an advocate may, in certain proceedings, do everything needed for the representation
of the Minister
of Employment before that
tribunal's social affairs division, and this power is not in conflict
with the Act respecting the Barreau du Québec.
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.
Students also assist our civil litigators
with all kinds
of civil litigation files, including court actions, applications, motions and appeals as well as proceedings before a variety
of administrative tribunals.
The Toronto Star brought its application
with respect to the 14
administrative tribunals found in the list
of institutions to which FIPPA applies in a Schedule to that Act.
More specifically, they are seeking declarations that Québec could not, consistently
with section 96
of the Constitution Act, 1867, grant its provincial court exclusive jurisdiction to hear cases where the amount at issue is more than $ 10 000 or any powers
of judicial review over provincial
administrative tribunals, because these powers are reserved for federally - appointed judges.
Ray has been guided by this principle throughout his more than fifty (50) years at the Ontario bar and he has applied it
with continual success for his clients at virtually every level
of court and
administrative tribunal in the Province.
They do not, in other words, interfere
with these courts» jurisdiction as it had been understood in the s. 96 jurisprudence, which has always been concerned
with the removal
of types
of cases (e.g. judicial review
of administrative tribunals) from the superior courts» purview.
The matters dealt
with by
administrative tribunals are rarely
of the type that elicit much concern from those not directly involved.
The other relevant development is that, to the extent the politicians have in fact done something about the difficulties
with access to justice in the courts, their response has mostly been to steer people out
of the courts altogether, whether into alternative dispute - resolution fora or into
administrative tribunals set up to take over the resolution
of some common disputes that the courts would otherwise have dealt
with in the past.
On issues such as the content
of the record on judicial review applications, the extent to which
administrative decision - makers can participate in judicial reviews
of their decisions, superior court review
of federal prison decisions and
tribunals» capacity to reconsider their decisions, Canadian courts have recently come under pressure to update the procedural law to bring it into line
with the substantive law.
(v) For purposes
of paragraph (e)(1)
of this section, a qualified protective order means,
with respect to protected health information requested under paragraph (e)(1)(ii)
of this section, an order
of a court or
of an
administrative tribunal or a stipulation by the parties to the litigation or
administrative proceeding that:
According to the Supreme Court in Capilano, «The presumption
of reasonableness is grounded in the legislature's choice... and the expertise
of the
tribunal... Expertise arises from the specialization
of functions
of administrative tribunals like the Board which have a habitual familiarity
with the legislative scheme they administer...» (Capilano at 33, citing Dunsmuir).
Mark has represented clients before both the Provincial and Supreme Court
of British Columbia, and also regularly assists employers
with a wide range
of other matters, including the preparation
of employment contracts and employment policies as well as dispute resolution before labour, employment, human rights, and other
administrative tribunals.