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  • August 12, 2024

    Power and Privilege

    Parliamentary privilege in the Supreme Court’s decision on the availability of Charter damages for unconstitutional legislation

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    Constitutional law
    Charter, Charter damages, parliamentary privilege, remedies, Supreme Court of Canada
  • August 6, 2024

    Power and Governance

    Will the prospect of damages awards to compensate the victims of unconstitutional legislation interfere with good governance? I think not

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    Constitutional law
    Charter, Charter damages, good governance, Parliamentary sovereignty, remedies, Supreme Court of Canada
  • August 5, 2024

    Way to Power

    Setting the scene for understanding the Supreme Court’s decision allowing damages as a remedy for legislative violations of the Charter

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    Constitutional law
    Charter, Charter damages, remedies, Supreme Court of Canada, tough on crime
  • July 16, 2024

    The Common Good Enlightenment

    Governing for the common good has been tried before, Martyn Rady explains. It did not go well.

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    History, Legal philosophy
    common good, Enlightenment, Europe, natural law, Roman Law, Rule of Law
  • July 15, 2024

    Rule of Law in Transition

    Some thoughts on Martyn Rady’s discussion of the legal systems of medieval central Europe.

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    History, Legal philosophy
    customary law, Europe, Middle Ages, Rule of Law
  • July 11, 2024

    An Inglorious Triumph

    Introducing a new article about the US legal conservative movement and its inglorious triumph during the Trump presidency

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    The Justice System
    Federalist Society, legal conservative movement, Supreme Court of the United States, Trump, United States
  • July 8, 2024

    A “Bright” Signal for Canada? Farewell to Chevron Deference

    In Loper Bright, the Supreme Court of the United States overturned the long-standing judicial review doctrine of Chevron deference. The decision has been met with all manner of criticism and celebration. There is no doubt that Loper Bright sends an important and valuable signal: it is the judicial role to decide questions of law, wherever

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    Uncategorized
    Administrative Law, Canada, Chevron, judicial review, Vavilov
  • June 21, 2024

    Marxist Administrative Law

    The Supreme Court re-writes the law of judicial review. Again. Maybe. Who knows, eh?

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    Administrative Law, Constitutional law
    Charter, deference, Doré, schools, standard of review
  • June 3, 2024

    ¿Por qué no se calla?

    The Chief Justice’s annual press conference is unseemly and inappropriate

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    The Justice System
    Chief Justice Wagner, Supreme Court of Canada
  • February 15, 2024

    A Strategy against Lethargy?

    Can courts order the government to appoint judges promptly? It’s complicated, but probably not

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    Constitutional law, The Justice System
    architecture, Canada, constitutional conventions, courts, judicial appointments, justiciability
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