2016

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The Basics of Judicial Review of Secondary Legislation: R (Public Law Project) v Lord Chancellor [2016] UKSC 39

There is nothing especially new about R (Public Law Project) v. Lord Chancellor [2016] UKSC 39, but it does contain a useful review of the basics of judicial review of secondary legislation. The Lord Chancellor had sought to introduce by way of secondary legislation a residence test for eligibility for legal aid. Entitlement to legal aid is determined […] Read more

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Reasonableness Review in Action: Canada (Attorney General) v. Igloo Vikski Inc., 2016 SCC 38

An interesting aspect of the Supreme Court of Canada’s recent decision in Canada (Attorney General) v. Igloo Vikski Inc., 2016 SCC 38 is the application of reasonableness review. The question was whether certain items of hockey equipment used by goalkeepers are a “glove, mitten or mitt” or an “article of plastics”, an important question because different tariffs […] Read more

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The Historical Foundations of English Administrative Law: Paul Craig on Philip Hamburger

Paul Craig’s essay on Philip Hamburger’s Is Administrative Law Unlawful? (discussed previously here) is an excellent survey of the historical foundations of English administrative law, which casts serious doubt on Hamburger’s account. Entitled “The Legitimacy of US Administrative Law and the Foundations of English Administrative Law: Setting the Historical Record Straight“, it is available on SSRN: Administrative […] Read more

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Administrative Law Values: Distinctively Canadian?

In the concluding chapters of Public Law Adjudication in Common Law Systems: Process and Substance — the edited collection arising from the first Public Law Conference, held at the University of Cambridge in 2014 — both Professor David Feldman and Professor Cheryl Saunders gently suggested that my chapter, “Administrative Law: A Values-Based Approach“, was produced from a Canadian perspective. […] Read more