2020

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Ensuring Consistency in Administrative Adjudication: Canadian Association of Refugee Lawyers v Canada (Immigration, Refugee and Citizenship), 2020 FCA 196

The Immigration and Refugee Board is Canada’s largest administrative tribunal. It makes tens of thousands of determinations each year in refugee and immigration matters where the stakes are as high as they can be in administrative adjudication. Ensuring consistent decision-making in a high-volume tribunal, with members spread out across the country, is a significant challenge. […] Read more

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Administrative Law & Governance Colloquium 2021: Front-Line Administration (Free Registration Now Open)

The Administrative Law & Governance Colloquium is a series of seminars with world-leading experts on public law, who will discuss their scholarship in depth in sessions chaired by Professor Paul Daly, the University Research Chair in Administrative Law & Governance. Attendance is open to students, faculty members and invitees from the public and private sector. […] Read more

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Vavilov at One

I have posted “Vavilov at One” to SSRN. It is a comprehensive review of the first year of the roll-out of the framework established in Canada (Citizenship and Immigration) v Vavilov, 2019 SCC 65. Here is the abstract: A year ago, in Canada (Citizenship and Immigration) v Vavilov, the Supreme Court of Canada fundamentally reshaped […] Read more

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The Ages of Administrative Law

As I find myself drafting the introductory chapter to the next edition of Administrative Law in Context, here are some thoughts on the evolution of administrative law… The advocates of the 20th century welfare state envisaged a government which would take care of its citizens from the cradle to the grave. The contemporary administrative state […] Read more

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Rates and Reserves: Manitoba (Hydro-Electric Board) v, Manitoba (Public Utilities Board), 2020 MBCA 60

The Supreme Court of Canada’s decision in Vavilov v. Canada (Citizenship and Immigration), 2019 SCC 65 made what seemed to be dramatic changes to the law relating to statutory appeals. Deference had previously come to reign supreme, even where an appeal to the courts from an administrative decision-maker had been provided by the legislature. Vavilov […] Read more