relaxation of
procedural fairness requirements in relation to the withdrawal of recognition and reduction of representative body areas (item 25);
assuring compliance with statutes and
procedural fairness requirements by regulatory bodies, and seeking court review where necessary,
In 2014, however, a Nova Scotia court confirmed that
procedural fairness requirements are less at the screening stage than at the disciplinary stage, and that inquiry committees are entitled to deference when they decide to send a matter to a hearing, in Levesque v. Nova Scotia College of Optometrists, 2014 NSSC 22.
In other professions, governing legislation may make no explicit mention of
procedural fairness requirements for complainants.
In particular there are questions about whether the acquisition of property on just terms include
some procedural fairness requirement.
Not exact matches
«The
procedural safeguards in the bill fall well short of the minimum
requirements for
fairness and are insufficient to prevent breaches of the right to a fair hearing occurring in practice,» the committee found.
As indicated, the ingredients of the basic
requirement of
procedural fairness (that a person has a fair opportunity to address the issues and the case against him) will vary having regard to the circumstances.
The
requirements of
procedural fairness are variable and case - specific.
Another perspective demands the same conclusion: when an effective decision maker is empowered to give directions to the employer the
requirement of
procedural fairness on the part of the employer of the office holder must apply to the effective decision maker too.
The contents of the
requirements of
procedural fairness may be affected by what is said or done in the course of the decision - making process.
These powers may bring with them stringent
requirements of
procedural fairness, including a higher
requirement of independence...
The important consideration in determining whether a tribunal has been «established by law» is not whether it was pre-established or established for a specific purpose or situation; what is important is that it be set up by a competent organ in keeping with the relevant legal procedures, and should that it observes the
requirements of
procedural fairness.
As Annis J. put it in David v. Canada (Attorney General), 2014 FC 358, where the question was «whether the acknowledged
requirement of thoroughness of an investigation by the Commission is to be considered as part of the reasonableness analysis or whether it is a matter of
procedural fairness subject to a correctness standard of review» (at para. 53),
Procedural fairness: No review of regulatory law is complete without covering developments on the ever - present requirements of procedural
Procedural fairness: No review of regulatory law is complete without covering developments on the ever - present
requirements of
proceduralprocedural fairness.
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.
The court below correctly concluded, however, the decision of the Council had to be set aside as not being in accord with the
requirements of
procedural fairness and natural justice, and a new hearing ordered.
In addition, EPS also argued that the Adjudicator breached the
requirements of
procedural fairness [ibid, para 12].
We first examined the general rules of disclosure and the
requirements of
procedural fairness (click here).