Information About Administrative Law Matters

Two recent Canadian cases have dealt with the reviewability of soft law instruments and, in both instances, the courts came out against judicial review. In Harold the Mortgage Closer Inc. v. Ontario (Financial Services Regulatory Authority, Chief Executive Officer), 2024 ONSC 4464, the applicants ch … Read more »

For a forthcoming contribution to an edited collection on interdisciplinary work in law and political science, I was asked to prepare a comment on a (very good) chapter by Dennis Baker and David Said. Here is Part I, on the divide between administrative lawyers and political scientists. In their con … Read more »

In a pair of cases decided this summer, the Supreme Court of Canada addressed the division of jurisdiction between Canada’s tax court and federal courts. In both Dow Chemical Canada ULC v. Canada, 2024 SCC 23 and Iris Technologies Inc. v. Canada, 2024 SCC 24, the Court had to determine the appropria … Read more »

As is well known, the appendix is a useless body part*. In Kolner v Alberta (Director of SafeRoads), 2024 ABKB 456, Bokenfohr J had to consider the legal utility of an appendix. It turns out that an appendix fares no better in administrative law than it does in the popular imagination. I have noted … Read more »

A favoured tool of contemporary legislatures and regulators is the administrative monetary penalty. Rather than imposing criminal liability on regulated entities for breaches of industry standards, legislatures have regularly chosen to empower regulators to impose fines — often substantial — on offe … Read more »