Abstract
What would the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms have looked like if it had been designed for administrative justice? This is a question underlying this study. Ever since the Supreme Court of Canada made clear in Slaight Communications that discretionary decisions of public officials were to be subject to the Charter, and expanded the reach of the Charter to most adjudicative tribunals, the Court has wrestled with the coherence of the relationship between the Charter and administrative justice. The Court attempted to synthesize its position and chart a new path forward beyond a traditional application of the Charter to incorporate a potentially broader but inchoate set of “Charter values” in its 2012 decision in Doré. With this decision as a point of departure, the authors elaborate a new framework for the development and application of Charter values in the distinct sphere of administrative justice.
Citation Information
Sossin, Lorne and Friedman, Mark.
"Charter Values and Administrative Justice."
The Supreme Court Law Review: Osgoode’s Annual Constitutional Cases Conference
67.
(2014).
DOI: https://doi.org/10.60082/2563-8505.1294
https://digitalcommons.osgoode.yorku.ca/sclr/vol67/iss1/12
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