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An Empty Vessel
Thoughts on the Justice Kasirer appointment process
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Keeping It Complicated
The Supreme Court issues its most originalist decision in years, but pretends it applies a different methodology
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Access to Justice and the Administrative State
Recently, as is well-known, the Ontario government announced a 30% cut to legal aid. The effects of this cut are already being felt, most prominently at Canada’s largest tribunal. The Immigration and Refugee Board [IRB] announced last week that it expected the legal aid cuts to cause “longer hearings, more postponements and adjournments and more
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Offspring of Depravity
The origins of the administrative state, and why they matter
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The Empire is Still Strong: A Response to Prof. Daly
Over on Administrative Law Matters, Prof. Daly writes that “[a]nti-administrativists have not had a good couple of weeks.” So his argument goes, in the last number of years “the administrative state in the United States has been under sustained attack, traduced as illegitimate and a betrayal of the commitment of the Founding Fathers.” This “cartoonish
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The Five-Judge Myth
How many Supreme Court judges does it take to decide a civil law appeal?
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All or Nothing At All?: Restricting the Growth of the Administrative State
Non-delegation limits do not spell the end of administrative government.
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Shouting into the Constitutional Void
Section 28 of the Canadian Charter and Québec’s Bill 21
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The Cruel Ritual of the Ontario Bar Exam
Every June, lawyers-to-be in the province of Ontario make the pilgrimage to one of a few cities to undergo the ritualistic exercise of writing the bar exam. For many, the bar exam—otherwise known as the lawyer licensing exam—represents a large part of the process to become a lawyer in the province of Ontario. Students migrate
Double Aspect 