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Administrative law 2026 FC 416

Borg v. Canada (Attorney General)

The Federal Court dismissed judicial review, finding the Minister reasonably concluded no administrative error occurred in mailing a CPP reconsideration letter and that section 7 was not engaged.

  • Judicial review
  • Reasonableness standard of review
  • Canada pension plan s.66(4) (erroneous advice/administrative error)
  • Section 7 charter (liberty and security of the person)
  • Remedies on judicial review
  • Burden of proof for non-receipt allegations
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Administrative law 2025 FC 341

Mancabo v. Canada (Attorney General)

The Federal Court dismissed a judicial review of a PSDPA refusal to investigate, holding the decision was procedurally fair, reasonable, and based on personal employment matters.

  • Judicial review
  • Procedural fairness
  • Reasonableness review
  • Public servants disclosure protection act (psdpa)
  • Refusal to investigate under s.24
  • Admissibility of evidence
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Administrative law 2024 BCCA 419

Li v. Lin

The British Columbia Court of Appeal dismissed an appeal after finding a Residential Tenancy Branch hearing breached procedural fairness when it ended without reconvening.

  • Procedural fairness
  • Adjournment
  • Decision without reconvening
  • Remedies on judicial review
  • Procedural-fairness
  • Judicial-review
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Administrative law 2023 FC 1042

Piatka-Wasty v. Canada (Attorney General)

The Federal Court set aside a Fishery Officer’s HADD direction over a dock on Pender Island, finding a breach of procedural fairness and apparent pre-determination.

  • Harmful alteration disruption or destruction (hadd)
  • Fisheries act s.35
  • Fisheries act s.38(7.1) corrective measures
  • Species at risk act critical habitat
  • Standard of review (reasonableness)
  • Bias and reasonable apprehension of bias
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Administrative law 2021 BCSC 2424

Sandhu v. British Columbia (Police Complaint Commissioner)

The court quashed police discipline decisions after finding the discipline authority lacked jurisdiction to start a new investigation and had acted unfairly by taking on overlapping roles.

  • Jurisdiction
  • Procedural fairness
  • Reasonable apprehension of bias
  • Certiorari
  • Statutory interpretation of the police act
  • Remedies on judicial review
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Administrative law 2021 FC 444

Plummer-Grolway v. Canada (Attorney General)

Judicial review of a security screening revocation was allowed because the applicant was not given a written statement of adverse information before the negative decision.

  • Security screening
  • Reliability status revocation
  • Statement of adverse information
  • Credit/financial assessment
  • Phoenix pay overpayment
  • Delegation of authority
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Administrative law 2018 FCA 131

Sturgeon Lake Cree Nation v. Hamelin

The Federal Court of Appeal held that the application judge did not err in finding the Electoral Officer had acted unilaterally and that the Regulations do not authorize the Electoral Officer to screen out appeals; consequently the appeals must be remitted to the Appeal Committee for redetermination, but the Federal Court’s order excluding the Electoral Officer was set aside because the Regulations expressly entitle the Electoral Officer to chair and vote in Appeal Committee meetings, and subordinate legislation governs procedural rights.

  • Electoral officer authority
  • Election appeals
  • Procedural fairness
  • Remedies on judicial review
  • Standard of appellate review
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Administrative law 2018 FC 434

Frémy v. Canada (Attorney General)

The Federal Court allowed judicial review of an RCMP grievance decision about Éric Bernard Frémy’s resignation, finding the adjudicator overlooked key evidence of duress.

  • Voluntariness of resignation
  • Economic duress
  • Judicial review standard of review
  • Remedies on judicial review
  • Procedural fairness
  • Statutory interpretation
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Administrative law 2016 FC 578

Herrera-Morales v. Canada (Attorney General)

Federal Court allowed judicial review of an RCMP probationary discharge, finding procedural unfairness where Part V was used for what was in substance disciplinary misconduct.

  • Probationary discharge
  • Unsuitability
  • Procedural fairness
  • Legitimate expectations
  • Concurrent disciplinary and performance proceedings
  • Duty to accommodate (language)
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Administrative law 2014 NSSC 319

Africentric Learning Institute of Nova Scotia Inc. v. Nova Scotia (Registry of Joint Stocks)

The Registrar’s conduct — meeting privately with a representative she believed from the Department of Education, reversing a prior rejection shortly after that meeting, deciding without consulting ALI, and issuing the Certificate of Name Change rapidly — gave rise to a reasonable apprehension of bias and breached procedural fairness; alternatively, the Registrar applied an incorrect and insufficient legal test under s.16 by requiring 'calculated to deceive' or actual confusion and failing to consider required contextual factors, rendering the decision unreasonable. The appropriate remedy was…

  • Company name disputes
  • Companies act s.16
  • Reasonable apprehension of bias
  • Standard of review (reasonableness)
  • Remedies on judicial review
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