You can now register for this year’s Administrative Law & Governance Colloquium on “Executive Power”. Registration is open and you can also simply join any or all of the webinars by clicking the links below or in the attached PDF. Here is a description of this year’s series: Executive power has been the site of […] Read more
One of the great unseen issues in public administration is the settlement of applications for judicial review. There has been a general trend in recent years towards the encouragement of out-of-court negotiations between applicants and public bodies. There are obvious benefits to settlement, in terms of sparing scarce judicial resources, permitting both sides to retain […] Read more
I am sure that many of you often lie awake late at night, staring at the ceiling and wondering “how would I serve a judicial review application on a member of a public inquiry commission?” You will find an answer in Environmental Defence Canada Inc. v Alberta, 2024 ABKB 265. A few years ago the […] Read more
This is the final post in my series on ‘Responsive Reasons’: for the previous posts, see here, here, here and here. There are two questions to be addressed in this section: why has responsiveness become important; and is it justifiably important? I will first address technical reasons for the rise of responsiveness in judicial review […] Read more
This is the latest post in my series on ‘Responsive Reasons’: for the previous posts, see here, here and here It cannot be said that the notions of justification and responsiveness have been developed in the United Kingdom to anything like the extent they have been in Canada and Ireland. Nonetheless, a degree of commitment […] Read more
