Until the middle of December, 2019 had been an unusually quiet year for Administrative Law judgments of significance, especially from the Supreme Court of Canada.

2018 was in many ways a landmark year in the Supreme Court of Canada’s Administrative Law jurisprudence. At a time marking the transition from the McLachlin to the Wagner Court, fissures continued to widen among the members of the Court with respect to not only the methodology for selection of the standard of review to be applied in judicial review of administrative decision-making but also the modalities by which predominant reasonableness review is conducted[…]

Overview 2016 (and the first month of 2017) have provided many important instances in both the courts and before energy regulators of the application and refinement of the principles of administrative law in the context of energy regulation. Given space […]

Introduction 2015 was a banner year for the judicial elaboration of principles of Administrative Law in Energy Law and Regulation settings. A number of these developments have been discussed already in the pages of the Energy Regulation Quarterly. Nigel Bankes […]

Introduction This paper has been ten years in the making in the sense that it represents the current evolutionary state of a background document to a presentation that I have been privileged to make at the annual CAMPUT Canada’s Energy […]