I am giving a couple of ‘year in review’ talks in the coming weeks, to the CLEBC Administrative Law Conference in Vancouver on November 21, and the Canadian Bar Association’s Administrative Law, and Labour and Employment Law Conference in Ottawa on November 29. I’ve posted the CLEBC version of the paper to SSRN, “Correctness, Reasonableness […] Read more

Occasionally, cases arises in which the answer given seems intuitively obvious. The only surprise about Re McAleenon, [2024] UKSC 31 is that the case made it to the United Kingdom’s apex court at all (though as we will see there were some unusual aspects to the case that help to explain why the court below […] Read more

To open, a plug for the excellent new “Administrative Court Blog“, run by Anurag Deb, Lewis Graham and Gabriel Tan: this highlights important decisions from the UK on administrative law matters. I have found it invaluable and, indeed, only came across the case described in this post from Anurag Deb’s post. Last year, I posted […] Read more

On the evergreen topic of Charter values, I have a new paper on SSRN (forthcoming in a special edition of the Ottawa Law Review on language rights), entitled “The Charter in Administrative Decision-Making: Defending the Duty to Take Charter Values (or Purposes) into Account“: The Supreme Court of Canada recently reaffirmed that administrative decision-makers are […] Read more