Registration for this year’s Administrative Law & Governance Colloquium is now open: register here. The topic for the 2023 edition will be “The Legitimacy of the State”: The legitimacy of contemporary liberal democratic states is in a state of flux. Managing the effects of globalization, responding to the COVID-19 pandemic and fighting escalating inflation have […] Read more
Having described in previous posts the limited content of the record for judicial review purposes in Canada (here and here), I turn now to critical analysis. I will suggest in this post that a limited record can undermine judicial review by preventing courts from performing their constitutionality duty of assessing the lawfulness of administrative action […] Read more
I have written a paper entitled, “How Binding are Binding Guidelines? An Analytical Framework” to be published later this year in Canadian Public Administration. You can access a pre-publication version here. In a previous post, I introduced the paper. In this post, I explain the first indicium of bindingness: the presence or absence of imperative […] Read more
The next guest in this year’s Administrative Law & Governance Colloquium will be Professor Robert Thomas (University of Manchester) on Tuesday March 21 at 11.30 eastern time via Zoom (note that the clocks changed in Canada last week so the time difference with Europe is an hour less than usual). Professor Thomas will be discussing […] Read more
On March 29 next, the University of Ottawa is holding a one-day conference to discuss the report of the Rouleau Commission into the invocation of the Emergencies Act by the federal government in 2022. I will be participating as a panelist. If time allows I will post my thoughts on the report and its relationship […] Read more
