As he pointed out, a foundation of
procedural fairness is that the parties have a proper and fair opportunity to
deal with the issues and therefore the case against them.
Cases involving standards of review and jurisdiction have been particularly plentiful, while a number of cases
dealing with standing,
procedural fairness, and the Charter are also worthy of note.
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.