Normal service is now resuming on the blog after the very successful Dunsmuir Decade symposium. I am very happy to say that “Updating the Procedural Law of Judicial Review of Administrative Action” will be published soon in the University of British Columbia Law Review. Here is the abstract: The substantive law of judicial review of […] Read more

Michel Bastarache was a judge of the Supreme Court of Canada from 1997 to 2008 and is now counsel at Caza Saikaley LLP At the outset, I should express my gratitude to Professors Daly and Sirota for the invitation to contribute to this remarkable project, including such a superb array of leading lawyers, scholars, and […] Read more

Louis LeBel était juge à la Cour suprême du Canada de 2000 à 2014. Il est actuellement avocat-conseil au cabinet Langlois à Québec et Montréal depuis mai 2015 et juge en résidence à la Faculté de droit de l’Université Laval. Le texte n’appartient plus à son auteur; ce lieu commun de la critique littéraire s’applique […] Read more

David Stratas is a judge of the Federal Court of Appeal Introduction The views expressed in this post are the author’s own and are offered for education and discussion purposes only. Dunsmuir is law. Like all Supreme Court decisions, it binds me. Nothing in this article suggests otherwise. If you come to my court and […] Read more

Lorne Sossin is the Dean of the Osgoode Hall Law School A few months after the Supreme Court released Dunsmuir v. New Brunswick (2008 SCC 9), a number of administrative law colleagues, led by David Dyzenhaus, convened a symposium at the University of Toronto Faculty of Law to explore its implications. My contribution to that […] Read more

Peter A Gall QC is a partner at Gall Legge Grant Zwack LLP in Vancouver In Dunsmuir, the Supreme Court set out to do two things: first, to simplify the standards of judicial review by eliminating the patent unreasonableness standard, and second, to strike a balance between upholding the rule of law – that is, […] Read more

Dean R Knight is a Senior Lecturer at the School of Law, Victoria University of Wellington Dunsmuir has exhilarated and puzzled Canadian audiences of administrative law for a decade now; and, before Dunsmuir, the enigmatic pragmatic and functional framework excited and frustrated the same audience. But, for an observer from abroad, this is no surprise. […] Read more

Diana Ginn is a Full Professor at he Schulich School of Law and William Lahey is President of the University of Kings College, and an Associate Professor, on leave, at the Schulich School of Law The implications of Dunsmuir[1] for judicial deference towards administrative decision making were uncertain for at least two reasons.  The first […] Read more

John M. Evans is Public Law Counsel at Goldblatt Partners LLP, Toronto, and was formerly a judge of the Federal Court and the Federal Court of Appeal The tenth anniversary celebration (if that’s the right word) of Dunsmuir has made me again sort through my thoughts on its significance in the development of administrative law […] Read more

Craig Forcese is a Full Professor at the Faculty of Law, Common Law Section, at the University of Ottawa The Supreme Court of Canada released its Dunsmuir decision in early March 2008, hours before my administrative law class at the University of Ottawa, Common Law Section, was to embark on study of standard of review […] Read more