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Administrative law 2026 FC 522

Utano v. Canada (Public Safety)

The Federal Court dismissed Antonio Utano’s judicial review of a CBSA grievance decision, finding the process reasonably addressed bias, fairness, and disclosure concerns.

  • Judicial review
  • Procedural fairness
  • Conflict of interest
  • Institutional bias
  • Disclosure obligations
  • Admissibility of new evidence
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Administrative law 2025 ONCA 153

Democracy Watch v. Ontario (Integrity Commissioner)

The Court dismissed the appeal and upheld the denial of public interest standing because the nine applications chiefly challenged individual exercises of the Commissioner’s statutory discretion and did not raise serious justiciable issues of statutory interpretation or broader legal validity; moreover proceeding would conflict with the LRA’s confidentiality regime and statutory scheme, and the motion judge’s discretionary balancing of Downtown Eastside factors warranted deference.

  • Public interest standing
  • Confidentiality of administrative investigations
  • Statutory interpretation of lra
  • Discretion of administrative decision-maker
  • Institutional bias
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Criminal law 2023 ONCA 274

R. v. Currado

The appeal was dismissed because the appellant failed to show state conduct that met the narrow residual abuse of process threshold: there was no deliberate nondisclosure or destruction of material evidence, the trial was fair, the LPS transferred carriage to the OPP before charges, and the involvement of the LPS did not, on the facts, create an institutional conflict so egregious as to undermine the integrity of the justice system.

  • Abuse of process
  • Residual abuse of process
  • Institutional bias
  • Disclosure obligations
  • Police investigation conflicts
  • Section 7 charter
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Administrative law 2022 BCSC 936

Tran v. British Columbia (Workers’ Compensation Appeal Tribunal)

The court dismissed Mr. Tran’s judicial review of a WCAT decision, finding no procedural unfairness and no patently unreasonable error in the tribunal’s reasoning.

  • Procedural fairness
  • Standard of review - patent unreasonableness
  • Privative clause
  • Institutional bias
  • Medical evidence
  • Judicial-review
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Administrative law 2018 BCSC 2108

Toor v. British Columbia (Superintendent of Motor Vehicles)

The Court dismissed a judicial review of an immediate roadside prohibition, holding that one reliable ASD result was sufficient and that no institutional bias was shown.

  • Immediate roadside prohibition
  • Approved screening device (asd) reliability
  • Institutional bias
  • Burden of proof
  • Standard of review
  • Immediate-roadside-prohibition
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Administrative law 2018 BCCA 65

Sutherland v. British Columbia (Superintendent of Motor Vehicles)

Appeal dismissed from judicial review upholding an immediate roadside driving prohibition. The court found no institutional bias at RoadSafetyBC and held the driver finding reasonable.

  • Institutional bias
  • Reasonable apprehension of bias
  • Immediacy of roadside prohibition
  • Standard of review
  • Adjudicator reasonableness
  • Definition of 'driver'
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Immigration law 2017 FC 728

Alhaqli v. Canada (Citizenship and Immigration)

Judicial review of two cancelled refugee-hearing decisions was dismissed as moot; the Court declined to rule on whether the IRB Instructions were ultra vires or biased.

  • Front-end security screening (fess)
  • Suspension/postponement of refugee hearings
  • Ultra vires/chairperson instructions
  • Institutional bias
  • Mootness
  • Judicial-review
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Administrative law 2017 BCSC 949

Poroznuk v. British Columbia (Superintendent of Motor Vehicles)

Judicial review of an immediate roadside driving prohibition was dismissed. The court held the adjudicator's credibility findings were reasonable and not tainted by manifestly flawed reasoning.

  • Judicial review
  • Reasonableness standard
  • Credibility assessment
  • Institutional bias
  • Approved screening device (asd)
  • Immediate roadside driving prohibition
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Immigration law 2016 FC 1261

Horvath v. Canada (Citizenship and Immigration)

The Federal Court dismissed judicial review of an H&C refusal, holding the officer reasonably weighed criminal inadmissibility, rehabilitation, family hardship and bias allegations.

  • Humanitarian and compassionate grounds
  • Judicial review
  • Reasonableness standard
  • Institutional bias
  • Rehabilitation
  • Spousal sponsorship
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Administrative law 2014 FC 299

Douglas v. Canada (Attorney General)

The Federal Court held it had jurisdiction to review Canadian Judicial Council conduct proceedings, found the challenge was not premature, but rejected the bias claim.

  • Judicial review jurisdiction
  • Institutional bias
  • Solicitor-client privilege
  • Prematurity doctrine
  • Deeming provision s63(4) of the judges act
  • Judicial-review-jurisdiction
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