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Administrative law 2026 FC 226

Canadian Taxpayers Federation v. Canadian Broadcasting Corporation

The Federal Court dismissed an ATIA and Charter challenge over CBC’s redacted aggregate advertising expenditures, holding paragraph 18(b) applied and no section 2(b) breach was shown.

  • Atia s.18(b) exemption
  • Reasonable expectation of probable harm
  • Burden of proof on institution
  • Freedom of expression (charter s.2(b))
  • Judicial review de novo
  • Office of the information commissioner review
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Tax law 2025 FC 969

Canada (National Revenue) v. Shopify Inc.

The Federal Court dismissed the Minister’s application for an unnamed persons requirement, finding the proposed target group was not ascertainable.

  • Unnamed persons requirement
  • Ascertainable group
  • Income tax act s.231.2
  • Judicial authorization
  • Data production and matching
  • Privacy and cybersecurity
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Tax law 2018 FC 622

Canada (National Revenue) v. Hydro-Québec

La Cour fédérale rejette la demande d’autorisation visant Hydro-Québec, jugeant le groupe visé trop vague et l’information demandée trop éloignée de la vérification fiscale.

  • Judicial authorization
  • Third-party information production
  • Ascertainable group
  • Fishing expedition
  • Statutory interpretation
  • Seizure and s.8 charter issues
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Administrative law 2018 FC 476

Shoan v. Canada (Attorney General)

The Federal Court dismissed Balraj Shoan’s judicial review of his second removal from the CRTC, finding the Governor in Council acted fairly and reasonably.

  • Termination for cause
  • Duty of procedural fairness
  • Reasonableness standard of review
  • Governor in council powers
  • Access to information act obligations
  • Ex parte contacts and bias
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Administrative law 2017 FC 625

David Suzuki Foundation v. Canada (Health)

The Federal Court denied Bayer CropScience’s request to seal remaining disputed material, finding no sufficient evidence of serious commercial harm and awarding costs to the applicants.

  • Confidentiality orders
  • Access to information
  • Pest control products act
  • Federal courts rules rule 151
  • Federal courts rules rule 152
  • Confidential test data
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Criminal law 2014 BCCA 123

Ambrosi v. British Columbia (Attorney General)

The Court of Appeal dismissed Mr. Ambrosi’s appeal from the refusal to issue process in a private prosecution, holding no prima facie offence under s. 337 was shown.

  • Private prosecution
  • Pre-inquiry (s.507.1)
  • Section 337 criminal code
  • In camera proceedings
  • Certiorari
  • Mandamus
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Administrative law 2013 BCSC 2025

Insurance Corporation of British Columbia v. Automotive Retailers Association

The court held that an OIPC order requiring disclosure of records was unreasonable because the records were part of ICBC’s deliberative process protected by FIPPA s. 13(1).

  • Freedom of information
  • Policy advice exemption (fippa s.13)
  • Paramountcy
  • Standard of review
  • Access to information
  • Freedom-of-information
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Administrative law 2010 FC 1307

Barry v. Canada (Attorney General)

The Federal Court dismissed judicial review of an Old Age Security overpayment decision, holding the applicant had to notify the Minister of his common-law status.

  • Remission of overpayment
  • Reporting of common-law status
  • Standard of review (reasonableness)
  • Information sharing between cra and federal departments
  • Judicial-review
  • Old-age-security
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Privacy law 2008 FC 1086

Johnson v. Bell Canada

The Federal Court held that purely personal inter-employee emails were not subject to PIPEDA, upheld Bell Canada’s focused search, and dismissed the application with costs.

  • Pipeda
  • Employee email
  • Scope of act
  • Retention and deletion
  • Access requests
  • Search adequacy
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Tort 2006 BCSC 431

Shilton v. Fassnacht

In a discovery motion, the court ordered disclosure of names and addresses of identified witnesses, but refused telephone numbers and financial records.

  • Discovery
  • Privilege
  • Relevance
  • Damages
  • Contact information
  • Financial records
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