2016

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New Paper: Struggling Towards Coherence in Canadian Administrative Law? Recent Cases on Standard of Review and Reasonableness

I have a new paper on Canadian administrative law, to be published shortly in the McGill Law Journal, entitled “Struggling Towards Coherence in Canadian Administrative Law? Recent Cases on Standard of Review and Reasonableness“. It is likely to be topical, in view of recent developments: the discussion in Wilson and the extra-judicial plea by Justice David Stratas for “doctrinal coherence […] Read more

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Explaining Numbers: Two Recent Cases

Apologies again for the long silence. Things remain rather chaotic, as we find ourselves between Canada and Cambridge, a move made all the more difficult by Brexit, and I have several writing commitments which have been filling my limited free time. These are now much closer to being fulfilled (or, at least, the deadlines are […] Read more

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Brexit : analyse juridique

I am currently on holiday in Ireland, where I have a ringside view of the debate over Brexit — whether the British people should vote on June 23 to leave the European Union. Just as things are hotting up — and the polls begin to indicate that a majority may well vote in favour of […] Read more

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Supreme Courts and the Common Law (8 hour webcast)

We are literally in the middle of packing our bags today, so this is a quick note to draw your attention to the availability of the webcast from Supreme Courts and the Common Law, held at the Cyberjustice Laboratory last Friday. Chief Justice McLachlin kicks off the event (after some introductory remarks from me, Guy […] Read more

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Guest Post, Sébastien Grammond: Can Parliament enact a requirement that Supreme Court judges be bilingual?

One could be forgiven for thinking that the Supreme Court settled this question definitively in the following quote from the Reference re Supreme Court Act : Both the general eligibility requirements for appointment and the specific eligibility requirements for appointment from Quebec are aspects of the composition of the Court.  It follows that any substantive change […] Read more