Joe Tomlinson and I have posted “Researching Public Law and the Administrative State” to SSRN: The modern administrative state is vast and complex. Public lawyers who seek to make sense of it face a difficult challenge and, over time, different ways of confronting the administrative state have emerged. Broadly speaking, academic studies relating to the […] Read more

I was invited to contribute to a major symposium on the career of Dr S Ronald Ellis QC today (see the details). Here are my remarks: A few weeks ago, the Supreme Court of Canada released a remarkable decision in R. v. Bissonnette, 2022 SCC 23. The issue was the constitutionality of a sentencing provision […] Read more

I have posted “The Ages of Administrative Law“, my contribution to this year’s Public Law Conference, to SSRN. Here is the third and final substantive part. Thoughts and comments very welcome. Already in the Age of Expansion general principles relating to administrative justice and administrative law had begun to emerge. That process accelerated from the […] Read more

I have posted “The Ages of Administrative Law“, my contribution to this year’s Public Law Conference, to SSRN. Here is the second substantive part. Thoughts and comments very welcome. Central government did not regulate many aspects of public and private life in the 19th century. In Canada, the early years post Confederation were marked by […] Read more