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Delanoy V. Public Service Commission Appeal Board, R. A. Macdonald
Delanoy V. Public Service Commission Appeal Board, R. A. Macdonald
Dalhousie Law Journal
Rarely does an Administrative Law decision raise the issue of the proper relationship between boards and courts as starkly as the recent Federal Court of Appeal judgment in Delanoy v. Public Service Commission Appeal Board.1 Generally, judicial review tends to focus upon the limits of natural justice (i.e. procedural questions) rather than the problems of formal (non-procedural) jurisdiction and therefore permits courts to assert legalistic values under the guise of "due process". However, almost as if impelled by the favourable comments that their incursions into this field have drawn from academics, the courts have manifested in recent years an almost …
Recent Developments In Nova Scotian Administrative Law, David J. Mullan
Recent Developments In Nova Scotian Administrative Law, David J. Mullan
Dalhousie Law Journal
Unlike a number of the subject areas covered by this symposium, Administrative Law in a Nova Scotia context has been much written about in the last three years. There have been two conferences on judicial review of administrative action sponsored by the Dalhousie University Law School Public Services Committee. Many of the papers appearing in the proceedings of those conferences have a distinctly Nova Scotian flavour. Indeed, the 1975 "University and the Law" Conference sponsored by the same Committee also featured a number of papers with a Nova Scotia Administrative Law bent,4 albeit of a much more specialized kind. Then …