Information About Administrative Law Matters

Another entry in the catalogue of cases dealing with the interaction between rights of appeal and applications for judicial review is Caledon Residences Inc. v. Ontario Land Tribunal, 2025 ONSC 6546. This raises a question as to whether a right of appeal that is subject to a leave requirement and is … Read more »

With agency independence very much on the agenda in North America at the moment, readers may be interested in a webinar to be held on December 29 at 3pm, organized by Oren Tamir of the James E. Rogers College of Law (Arizona) and featuring speakers from across the common law world and the European U … Read more »

Over the last few months, I have been working with Professor Mark Mancini on a paper on internal trade barriers within Canada and, in particular, on a proposal to create an administrative structure that would help to establish frictionless trade in Canada. We discussed the issue with Peter Copeland … Read more »

There has been renewed interest in recent years in the theory of administrative law. As I commented a few years ago: It seems to me that it is no accident that contemporary administrative law scholars have focused their academic energies on (relatively) grand theories of the subject. With the genera … Read more »

The rise and rise of habeas corpus continues, with the Supreme Court of Canada further extending the scope of the Great Writ in Dorsey v. Canada (Attorney General), 2025 SCC 38. This judgment deserves careful analysis, but can only be understood in its historical context. One point that should be ma … Read more »