This piece makes the point that the concept
of standard of review is essentially a rhetorical and political one.
Even then, the meta - review score only accounts for available opinions — some of which are weighted based on quality or
standards of the review site.
In essence, his grounds are as follows: the appeal decision applies the
wrong standard of review and substitutes that court's view of the facts for those of the learned trial judge.
This paper provides a brief history
of standard of review and the relationship between courts and administrative agencies.
Pursuant to Dunsmuir at para. 54, there are two possible
standards of review applicable to the substantive merits of the Chief Commissioner's decision: correctness and reasonableness.
NYSRPA believes the challenged portions of the Act will fail any applicable
standard of review for constitutional rights and that enjoining enforcement is in the public interest.
On August 4, 2016, the Ontario Court of Appeal released its decision in Intact v. Allstate [1] and changed the
correctness standard of review for appeals from private arbitrations to one...
If one were — perhaps mischievously — to judge the Supreme Court's recent decisions on
standard of review by reference to the virtues of justification, intelligibility, and transparency, one would have to conclude that the flaws in the Dunsmuir approach cause the Court to come up short.
Proceeding from first principles, I would say the answer is that the internal
standard of review depends on an interpretation of the statutory scheme.
The Court's attempt to articulate rules
governing standard of review is like a baseball coach trying to develop a set of rules for players to use when deciding whether to swing, when the appropriate advice is both simple and incapable of more precise articulation: swing at a strike; don't swing at a ball (or, alternately, swing at a pitch you have the skill to hit, and leave the rest alone).
[In it, Strine] decided a novel question of law, ruling that, «when a controlling stockholder merger has, from the time of the controller's first overture, been subject to (i) negotiation and approval by a special committee of independent directors fully empowered to say no, and (ii) approval by an uncoerced, fully informed vote of a majority of the minority investors, the business judgment
rule standard of review applies.»
Although the interpretation of a limitation period was at issue, which is arguably a general question of law, the Court applied a reasonableness
standard of review because of the tribunal's construal of its home statute.
I regularly witness
how standard of review is wielded by some judges as a threat to one of the pillars of the rule of law — access to an effective remedy.
concurrence in Rita: «Simply stated, Booker replaced the de
novo standard of review required by 18 U. S. C. § 3742 (e) with an abuse - of - discretion standard that we called «reasonableness» review.»
While standard of review grounds of appeal have not been favourably received by the SCC since being exhausted by Dunsmuir (whatever that now means) a case such as this may provide the proper constellation of legal problems to warrant a review.
Editor's Note: NAR filed a joint amicus curiae brief with the National Association of Home Builders which argued for the use of a
heightened standard of review in public use cases involving economic development, per the recommendation of NAR's Legal Action Committee.
In light of the deference that the prevailing, binding reasonableness
standard of review accords to the Tribunal's findings of fact and determinations of questions of mixed fact and law, Justice Brown could not conclude the Tribunal's conclusion fell outside the range of possible, acceptable outcomes defensible in respect of the facts and law.
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