In their excellent book Reimagining Administrative Justice: Human Rights in Small Places (Palgrave MacMillan, 2019) (discussed here) Margaret Doyle and Nick O’Brien attack what they perceive as a neoliberal, individualistic turn in thinking about human rights and administrative justice. No quarter is given by the authors to those they consider responsible, one of whom is […] Read more

Britain is currently in the throes of a general election in which, an unkind Transatlantic observer might say, the question for many voters is ‘who is the evil of two lessers?’ It is quite likely, indeed almost certain, that Boris Johnson or Jeremy Corbyn will be occupying 10 Downing Street come January 1, 2020, notwithstanding […] Read more

In Reimagining Administrative Justice: Human Rights in Small Places (Palgrave MacMillan, 2019) Margaret Doyle and Nick O’Brien have made a wonderful contribution to the public law literature. By turns playful, polemical and provocative, the authors set out to challenge much of the received contemporary wisdom about administrative justice. Their motive is to fight back against […] Read more

I have posted my “year in review” paper to SSRN. The title is “Waiting for Godot: Canadian Administrative Law in 2019“. Here is the abstract: The first half of my “year in review” paper covers the Supreme Court’s much-anticipated trilogy of decisions on the standard of review of administrative action (Part I); some of the […] Read more