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Author Ellis, S. Ronald

Title Unjust by design : Canada's administrative justice system / Ron Ellis
Published Vancouver : UBC Press, 2013

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Description 1 online resource
Series Law and society, 1925-0215
Law and society series (Vancouver, B.C. : Online)
Contents Defeating the rule of law in the administrative justice system : executive branch strategies and tactics -- Administrative justice : getting the context and terminology clear, the concepts straight, and the prescription right -- Administrative judicial tribunals : the inside story -- Prelude to reform -- The reform proposal -- Implementing the reform proposal : a strategy for change -- Meanwhile, a toolkit for litigators
Summary Canadian legislatures regularly assign what are truly court functions to non-court, government tribunals. These executive branch judicial tribunals are surrogate courts and together comprise a little-known system of administrative justice that annually makes hundreds of thousands of contentious, life-altering judicial decisions concerning the everyday rights of both individuals and businesses
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 291-343) and index
Subject Administrative courts -- Canada
Administrative law -- Canada
LAW -- Constitutional.
LAW -- Public.
Administrative courts
Administrative law
Canada
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780774824798
0774824794