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Apex Courts and the Common Law
A new edited collection from the University of Toronto Press Read more
Administrative Law Matters
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Of Clarity and Context: R (Privacy International) v Investigatory Powers Tribunal [2019] UKSC 22
The United Kingdom Supreme Court handed down its decision in R (Privacy International) v Investigatory Powers Tribunal [2019] UKSC 22 this morning. There are four judgments: a plurality judgment by Lord Carnwath (with whom Lady Hale and Lord Kerr concur) and dissenting judgments by Lord Sumption (with whom Lord Reed concurs) and Lord Wilson. There is […] Read more
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New Job: University Research Chair in Administrative Law & Governance, University of Ottawa (Faculty of Law, Common Law Section)
After three extraordinarily happy years in Cambridge, I am moving back to Canada, where I will seek to repay the University of Ottawa’s faith in me as a legal scholar, as the University Research Chair in Administrative Law & Governance. The University’s announcement can be found here, with more details on the website of the […] Read more
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The Limits of Public Law: J.W. v. Canada (Attorney General), 2019 SCC 20
The Indian Residential Schools Settlement Agreement was concluded in 2006, settling class actions brought against the Government of Canada and religious organizations by those who suffered abuse in residential schools. Over a period of almost 150 years, around 150,000 young First Nations, Inuit and Métis children attended Indian Residential Schools run by religious orders and […] Read more
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Confusion and Contestation: Canada’s Standard of Review
As all but the newest readers of this blog are aware, the Supreme Court of Canada should, sometime this year, release a trilogy of decisions intended to clarify the Canadian law of standard of review. It is by now very clear that the stakes are quite high. A tour of recent appellate and first-instance decisions […] Read more