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Sentencing Judgment Found Inside a Chinese Fortune Cookie
The sentencing judgment in the Québec City mosque shooter’s case is badly flawed
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The Statement of Principles
Thus far, I have stayed out of the controversy surrounding the Statement of Principles [SOP] because I have nothing new to add. Leonid has, in a series of posts, outlined the in-principle objections to the SOP, while others have suggested that the SOP is a modest, necessary remedy for a difficult problem. But as the
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A Small Win on Admin Law Expertise
I’ve written before how the Supreme Court’s approach to expertise is wrongheaded in a number of ways. Practically, by saying that expertise “inheres in a tribunal as an institution,” (Edmonton East, at para 33), the Court has simply asserted a fact that is unlikely to be empirically true across the mass of varied decision-makers. Rather,
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Textual Judicial Supremacy
The Canadian constitution’s text makes it clear that judges must have the last word on its interpretation
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The Diceyan Trope
Metaphors, labels, and particular phrases seem to be a constant theme running through Canadian law. In virtually every area of public law, the Supreme Court deploys clever labels and metaphors to convey ideas that are bundled with certain inferences or assumptions about the ideas themselves. The most famous, perhaps, is the living tree model of
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Australia 1:0 Canada
Canadians have much to learn from the Australian High Court’s take on election spending limits for “third parties”
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Affidavi
Why I oppose the Law Society of Ontario’s “statement of principles”
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At the Executive’s Pleasure
When Parliament delegates power to agencies, it does so for any number of reasons. At least in theory, Parliament could delegate to a tribunal because it genuinely believes that some particular problem requires expert treatment. Parliament could also delegate as part of a “make or buy” decision, in a Coasian sense: the costs of crafting
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Look, Look, over There!
What role should comparative law play in constitutional adjudication in Canada?
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Civics, Feelings, and Politics
Expatriates’ alleged lack of connection to particular ridings is not a good reason to disenfranchise them
Double Aspect 