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Reminder: Prerogative Powers with Professor Philippe Lagassé, March 18, 11.30 eastern

Tomorrow, Professor Philippe Lagassé (Carleton) will be joining me on the Administrative Law & Governance Colloquium, on the subject of prerogative powers. Professor Lagassé will be discussing a draft manuscript based on research done under a large grant from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council. He will offer some arresting conclusions about similarities in […] Read more

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Limited Rights of Appeal: Three Camps

The Supreme Court of Canada announced yesterday that it will release its reasons for judgment in the appeal from Yatar v. TD Insurance Meloche Monnex,2022 ONCA 446 on Friday. This decision is coming sooner than I expected based on the average time administrative law matters have spent on reserve: this one was heard in November […] Read more

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Reminder: Peter Shane on Presidential Powers Wednesday 11.30 eastern time

A reminder that Professor Peter Shane (NYU) will be joining me on Wednesday, at 11.30 eastern time, in the latest instalment of this year’s Administrative Law & Governance Colloquium on “Executive Power“. Professor Shane and I will be discussing his book Democracy’s Chief Executive: In the eyes of modern-day presidentialists, the United States Constitution’s vesting […] Read more

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Losing Confidence: Ontario (Attorney General) v. Ontario (Information and Privacy Commissioner), 2024 SCC 4

The Supreme Court of Canada’s most recent entry in its standard of review catalogue is Ontario (Attorney General) v. Ontario (Information and Privacy Commissioner), 2024 SCC 4. Here, the Commissioner had ordered that mandate letters issued by the Premier of Ontario to his cabinet ministers should be released under the Freedom of Information and Protection […] Read more