2021

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Margaret Doyle & Nick O’Brien, Reimagining Administrative Justice, Tuesday March 16, 11.30 EST

The next speakers in this year’s Administrative Law & Governance Colloquium on “Front-Line Administration” are Margaret Doyle and Nick O’Brien. They will be having a dialogue about their recent book, Reimagining Administrative Justice: Human Rights in Small Spaces (Palgrave, 2019): This book reconnects everyday justice with social rights. It rediscovers human rights in the ‘small […] Read more

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Section 96 and British Columbia’s Civil Resolution Tribunal: Trial Lawyers’ Association of British Columbia v British Columbia (Attorney General), 2021 BCSC 348

Earlier this week, the Supreme Court of British Columbia handed down an important — perhaps even monumental — decision on s. 96 of the Constitution Act, 1867: Trial Lawyers’ Association of British Columbia v British Columbia (Attorney General), 2021 BCSC 348. Hinkson CJ held that the legislation giving the province’s Civil Resolution Tribunal jurisdiction over […] Read more

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Bernardo Zacka, Public Service and Moral Agency, Tuesday March 2, 11.30 EST

The next speaker in this year’s Administrative Law & Governance Colloquium, “Front-Line Administration”, is Professor Bernardo Zacka (MIT). Register here for tomorrow’s Zoom webinar. Prof Zacka will be discussing his work on front-line decision-makers. Here is a short description of his book, When the State Meets the Street: Public Service and Moral Agency (Harvard University […] Read more

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The Little Appointing Provision That Couldn’t Quite: Prairies Tubulars (2015) Inc. v. Canada (Border Services Agency), 2021 FC 36

Over the years, s. 96 of the Constitution Act, 1867 has enjoyed a remarkable evolution. It has been the little appointing provision that could: its handful of words about the process for appointing judges to the superior courts have, by judicial exegesis, created forests of jurisprudence on the limitations on legislative power to encroach on […] Read more

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Tales from the Public-Private Divide: Wastech Services Ltd. v. Greater Vancouver Sewerage and Drainage District, 2021 SCC 7

The Supreme Court of Canada’s decision in Wastech Services Ltd. v. Greater Vancouver Sewerage and Drainage District, 2021 SCC 7 touches on a couple of issues arising at the intersection between public and private law. The case was about contractual discretion. M contracted with W to provide waste removal and transportation services. For many years […] Read more