Maryniuk on Doré

The Supreme Court’s decision in Doré v Barreau du Québec, 2012 SCC 12, [2012] 1 SCR 395 continues to be one of its most consistently criticized. It was, for instance, one of the most frequently mentioned as being among the Court’s worst by the participants in our recent 12 Days of Christmas symposium. Even more recently, Doré and the concept of “Charter values” as the touchstone of judicial review of administrative decisions implicating the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms was the subject of a fascinating discussion between Justices Lauwers and Sossin, expertly moderated by co-blogger Mark Mancini, at this weekend’s Runnymede Conference.

So it is a real pleasure for me to announce that we are shortly going to publish a guest post on Doré by Jonathan Maryniuk, a lawyer with Kuhn LLP who, among other things, represented Trinity Western University in its challenge the denial of accreditation to their proposed law school before the courts in British Columbia and the Supreme Court. This has, of course, given Mr. Maryniuk an opportunity to reflect a great deal on the Doré approach, which was crucial in that litigation, and I am very much looking forward to his sharing his insights with us.

Author: Leonid Sirota

Law nerd. I teach public law at the University of Reading, in the United Kingdom. I studied law at McGill, clerked at the Federal Court of Canada, and did graduate work at the NYU School of Law. I then taught in New Zealand before taking up my current position at Reading. View all posts by Leonid Sirota