Naraine v. Canada (Attorney General), 2015 FC 934 recently provoked the breathless — and breathtakingly misleading — headline: “Prison can’t take porn channels away from inmates, federal court rules“. The trigger for the Naraine litigation was apparently a parliamentary hearing on sexual harassment in the federal workplace before the Standing Committee on the Status of […] Read more

A vigorous debate erupted in the comments to a recent post on deference on questions of procedural fairness. Recently, doctrinal orthodoxy has been challenged by several Canadian judges (a challenge based on Canadian developments but which ought also to be on the radar of those overseas) who have contended that procedural questions can no longer […] Read more