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Bouthillier on Expanding Bill 101
Announcing an upcoming guest post by Simon Bouthillier Continue reading
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The Ivory Tower Prisoner’s Dilemma
Why law journals are useless, and why we can’t do without them Continue reading
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Horrocks: What Happens to Agraira?
One of the more nerdy judicial review questions is the standard of review applicable from an appellate court to a lower court in judicial review cases. That is, how do appellate courts deal with lower court decisions that, either through a right of appeal or by application for judicial review, review administrative decisions? The current Continue reading
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On the Rule of Law, Blockades, and Indigenous Self-Government
Recently, Canadians have been captivated by a set of protests occurring both in British Columbia and Ontario in relation to the Coastal GasLink pipeline. The pipeline is a $6B dollar, 670 km project which runs across Northern British Columbia. In British Columbia, the hereditary chiefs of the Wet’suwet’en lead blockades across the pipeline path, even Continue reading
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Vavilov and the “Culture of Justification”
(Alyn) James Johnson In Canada (Minister of Citizenship and Immigration) v. Vavilov (2019 SCC 65), the Supreme Court of Canada strongly endorses a “culture of justification” (at paras. 2, 14). This concept, which has rarely been mentioned let alone employed by a Canadian court in the past (a CanLII search reveals only the concurring judgment Continue reading
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Johnson on Vavilov
Announcing a guest post on the “culture of justification” in the Supreme Court’s decision in Vavilov Continue reading
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L’article 28 de la Charte canadienne des droits et libertés: des dispositions interprétatives sujettes à interprétation
Alors que la loi québécoise sur la « laïcité de l’État », qui contient une disposition (art. 34) dite « type » de dérogation à la Charte canadienne des droits et libertés, voit sa constitutionnalité être contestée devant la Cour supérieure, l’article 28 de ladite Charte, aux dispositions duquel l’article 33 ne permet pas la dérogation, fait l’objet Continue reading
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St-Hilaire on Section 28
This is a quick note to announce that Maxime St-Hilaire will shortly be publishing a guest post on section 28 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms and its relationship with the Charter’s “notwithstanding clause”. We previously published a post on this subject by Kerri Froc, which prompted a response by Asher Honickman over Continue reading
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Kinsinger on Religious Neutrality
Announcing a guest post by Kristopher Kinsinger Continue reading
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Vavilov’s Reasonableness Standard: A Legal Hard-Look Review
In my first post on Vavilov, I celebrated the Court for finally bringing some sense to the Canadian law of judicial review. Particularly, I focused on three issues relevant to determining the standard of review: the banishment of jurisdictional questions, the introduction of statutory rights of appeal as a category of correctness review, and the Continue reading
Double Aspect 