Not exact matches
ACLU attorney Joshua Block said the main practical impact
of the
decision is that it would prevent the Obama administration from carrying
out administrative enforcement actions against schools on transgender issues.
First is their potentially extreme vulnerability to the
decisions of the faculty members who head the labs and the
administrative personnel charged with carrying
out university policies.
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 leading case handed down over twenty years ago was Knight v. Indian Head School Division No. 19 (1990), where the Supreme Court
of Canada set
out a three - pronged test: when a public body's
decision is
administrative and final in nature, is made under a statute or code, and affects the interests or rights
of the accused person, then the rules
of procedural fairness must be followed.
Moreover, an Italian public authority seeking to shield itself behind the authority
of the Italian courts to shut
out the jurisdiction
of the English courts may indeed be very unpleasantly surprised as was the case here where the Italian Regional
Administrative Court
of Piedmont refused jurisdiction in the above named cases in favour
of the English courts, a fact taken into account in the judgement
of the English court in the application for summary judgement as further justification for its
decision..
We represent clients in litigation arising
out of state and local
administrative decision - making and in challenges to regulatory enactments.
The second half
of his talk drew
out valuable lessons to be learned from recent
decisions of the
Administrative Court and the Court
of Appeal in relation to the regulation
of the solar energy business.
By ensuring that
administrative decisions fit within the legislative scheme in a way that makes sense in terms
of the basic rules
of statutory interpretation and fundamental legal principles, the courts are not acting contrary to the legislative will, but rather carrying it
out.
In Dunsmuir, the Supreme Court set
out to do two things: first, to simplify the standards
of judicial review by eliminating the patent unreasonableness standard, and second, to strike a balance between upholding the rule
of law — that is, ensuring that
administrative decision makers adhere to the law as written by legislatures — and according sufficient deference to the
administrative decision maker to allow them to provide substantive «meat» to the legislative bones.
In coming to its
decision, the Court
of Appeal held that the
administrative law framework set
out in Dunsmuir v. New Brunswick, [2008] 1 S.C.R. 190 applied, rather than the «appellate» framework, as an appeal
of an insurance arbitration reviews the
decision of a non-judicial
decision maker.
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.
For too long in this area
of law, judges have set
out operational rules based on their own personal views
of the proper relationship between the judiciary and
administrative decision - makers and their own freestanding opinions — not well - settled doctrine and well - accepted principles
of a longstanding and durable nature.
The government and the insurance industry decided that these six people would be the most fair
decision makers, but that it would be more fair if the fact that the defendant had insurance was kept secret from the jury, that it was kept secret that any award that the jury made would be reduced by $ 30,000 and that there would be a host
of procedural and
administrative road - blocks to submitting evidence (sounds like it's straight
out of a John Grisham novel doesn't it?).
[86] The recent
decisions of the Supreme Court
of Canada in Agraira v. Canada (Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness), 2013 SCC 36 (CanLII) at para. 50 (Agraira) and McLean v. British Columbia (Securities Commission), 2013 SCC 67 (CanLII) at paras. 20 - 21 and 33 (McLean) stand for the proposition that the presumption
of reasonableness set
out in Alberta (Information and Privacy Commissioner) v. Alberta Teacher's Association, 2011 SCC 61 (CanLII), [2011] 3 S.C.R. 654 at para. 39 extends to any
administrative decision maker (including a ministerial
decision maker) interpreting his or her home statute.