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The majority of judges at the Supreme Court confirmed there are two standards of review when a court looks at administrative decisions. These are “reasonableness” and “correctness.”
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May 14, 2021 · While the proper framework for analyzing consent to sexual activity was succinctly set out in R. v. Hutchinson, 2014 SCC 19, [2014] 1 S.C.R. 346, it is the Criminal Code which establishes the requirement of a two-step analysis of consent to sexual activity.
Sep 21, 2020 · Abstract. The nature of reasonableness review in administrative law has long been obscured behind vivid but uninformative descriptions. In recent years, courts and commentators have recognised that reasonableness review involves assessment of the weight and balance of reasons bearing on a decision.
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We discuss theory and evidence suggesting that in morally relevant judgments, including those involving negligence, self-defense, and provocation, the tendency to rely on the self—on one's own values and predilections—dominates considerations of the RPP.
tort law’s core concepts and animating principles, to see how this body of law fits into our legal and political system, and to appreciate why there are good reasons to retain tort law while relying on courts regularly
Jan 20, 2021 · In my view, there are three key takeaways from his study: (1) judges and nonexperts assess meaning similarly; (2) ordinary meaning is often unclear; and (3) dictionaries and corpus linguistics provide meanings that diverge from each other and from ordinary meaning, with dictionaries tending to reflect expansive, or “legalist,” word meaning and c...
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