I had the distinct pleasure of presenting a paper last month in honour of Justice Morissette, latterly of the Quebec Court of Appeal and for many years a professor (and then dean) at McGill’s Faculty of Law. I am going to reproduce the paper in four parts here: the introduction (in this post) and then […] Read more

I am looking forward very much to a trip to South Africa next week for the Public Law Conference this year on the theme of Public Law and the Future of Constitutional Democracy. My paper is on “An Institutional Approach to Judicial Independence and Accountability”: My goal in this contribution is to set out and defend […] Read more

Thanks to Claude, here is an English translation of my post on the Petrishki case (NB I have not verified the re-translated extracts from the Supreme Court of Canada judgments mentioned below) My subject this afternoon is the recent decision of the Quebec Court of Appeal in Procureur général du Québec c. Petrishki, 2025 QCCA 893, from […] Read more

I am giving a talk next week to the Conférence des juges administratifs du Québec on administrative independence. In part, I will reiterate points I discussed in detail here. But I also explain, by reference to a case that the Supreme Court of Canada will hear on appeal, that administrative tribunals are, in some circumstances, […] Read more