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Administrative law 2025 BCSC 2

Windset Farms (Canada) Ltd. v. British Columbia Farm Industry Review Board

The court dismissed a judicial review of BCFIRB’s approval of MPL as a designated agency, finding the decision within its supervisory powers and not patently unreasonable.

  • Agency designation
  • Procedural fairness
  • Standard of review
  • Statutory interpretation
  • Supervisory powers
  • Privative clause
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Administrative law 2024 FCA 180

Prince Edward Island Potato Board v. Canada (Agriculture and Agri-Food)

The Ministerial Order was reasonable because the CFIA record contained objectively discernible facts and a rational chain of analysis that supported a reasonable suspicion that PEI (including unregulated fields) was exposed to potato wart, and once the statutory threshold was met the Minister permissibly considered trade consequences in exercising her discretionary authority under s.15(3).

  • Plant protection
  • Potato wart (synchytrium endobioticum)
  • Infested place
  • Ministerial order under s.15(3)
  • Reasonable suspicion
  • Judicial review
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Administrative law 2022 FC 625

Potatoes New Brunswick v. Canada (Food Inspection Agency)

The Federal Court dismissed a judicial review of CFIA’s national potato wart survey, holding the inspection powers were reasonably exercised and did not breach section 8 of the Charter.

  • Reasonableness review
  • Plant protection act
  • Search and seizure
  • Section 8 charter
  • Potato wart surveillance
  • Cfia national survey
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Administrative law 2021 BCCA 442

English v. Richmond (City)

The Court of Appeal held the inspector’s interpretation of the ALR cannabis regulation was unreasonable, but the permit issue had to be remitted for a soil-base determination.

  • Reasonableness review (vavilov)
  • Admissibility of extrinsic evidence
  • Mandamus and remittal
  • Zoning vs provincial regulation conflict
  • Agricultural land reserve (alr) exceptions
  • Technical determination of 'base consisting entirely of soil'
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Administrative law 2021 BCCA 75

Patton v. British Columbia Farm Industry Review Board

La Cour d’appel de la Colombie-Britannique a accueilli l’appel, annulé l’ordonnance de révision judiciaire et rétabli la décision du FIRB rejetant l’appel de Patton.

  • Audi alteram partem
  • Summary dismissal
  • Supply management and quota regulation
  • Standard of review - patent unreasonableness
  • Procedural timeliness and disclosure
  • Procedural-fairness
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Administrative law 2019 BCSC 1350

Ashfield v. British Columbia (Assessor of Area #06 - Courtenay)

The court upheld the Board’s farm-classification decision, finding its interpretation of s. 8(9) of the Regulation reasonable and rejecting reliance on Kelt.

  • Statutory interpretation
  • Farm classification
  • Assessment regulation
  • Standard of review
  • Issue estoppel
  • Stare decisis
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Administrative law 2018 FCA 196

Canada (Attorney General) v. Klevtsov

The Tribunal erred in law by applying the defence of automatism without the required assertion of involuntariness and without confirming psychiatric expert evidence as mandated by R. v. Stone; the available medical records were inadequate to support automatism and the record compelled only one conclusion — the Minister's decision confirming the Notice of Violation must be reinstated.

  • Automatism defence
  • Absolute liability offences
  • Standard of review
  • Evidentiary requirements
  • Judicial review
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Tort 2018 ONCA 3

Vancise v. Canada (Attorney General)

Section 9 of the CLPA bars the appellant's claim because compensation had been paid from public funds in respect of the same event (the anaplasmosis outbreak on the farm), and s.9, as interpreted in Sarvanis and applied in Langille and Begg, precludes additional claims based on the same factual basis even if framed as different heads of loss.

  • Crown liability and proceedings act s.9
  • Health of animals act ss.51 and 53
  • Negligence
  • Compensation
  • Summary judgment
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Administrative law 2014 FCA 259

Canada (Attorney General) v. Schoolcraft

The Tribunal's conclusions were supported by the evidence on the record and there was no reviewable error; the Court must not conduct a de novo trial or substitute its own factual findings, therefore the judicial review application is dismissed.

  • Judicial review
  • Standard of review
  • Tribunal findings
  • Evidentiary assessment
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