Cross-posted from Australian Public Law blog: for the opening post in the series, see here. As Janina Boughey has recently observed, the reforms that followed from the report of the Administrative Review Committee, more commonly known as the Kerr Committee, were sweeping and, at the time, revolutionary. It is now nearly 50 years since the […] Read more
In New Brunswick – Canada’s only bilingual province – there is a constitutional challenge to the appointment of a unilingual Lieutenant Governor. The Centre for Public Law held a panel discussion on the case last week. My comments, which relate to the justiciability of prime ministerial advice to the Governor General and the justiciability of […] Read more
Many thanks to those of you who joined in for this year’s Administrative Law & Governance Colloquium. Here are the recordings of the talks (with, sadly, the exception of the first, which was snaffled up by technical gremlins), by Jennifer Raso (“Reasons and Justification”), Bernardo Zacka (“Public Service and Moral Agency), Margaret Doyle and Nick […] Read more
I am happy to be cross-posting from the Australian Public Law blog a series of posts celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Kerr Report, a landmark report in Australian administrative law and one which forms part of a Commonwealth-wide wave of administrative law reform. The first post is by Dr Janina Boughey (University of New […] Read more
