The Federal Court quashed CRA decisions denying CERB and CRCB, finding the process unreasonable and procedurally unfair, and remitted the matter for redetermination.
The Appeal Division allowed the appeal in part, remitted the penalty/false-statements issues to the General Division for reconsideration, and substituted the General Division's decision on disentitlement: claimant is disentitled to EI benefits for April 13–20, 2022 and June 7–14, 2022 because he was outside Canada and did not meet any section 55 regulatory exception; the General Division erred by applying the "reasonable and customary efforts" criteria to availability and by failing to decide the penalty/false-statement issues.
The court dismissed judicial review of an RTB award, finding no procedural unfairness and no patent unreasonableness in the arbitrator’s credibility findings and s. 51 analysis.
Judicial review of the refusal to order a new workplace harassment investigation was dismissed. The Court found no duty to verify the report and no procedural unfairness.
The Federal Court dismissed Bedeque Farms’ judicial review of CFIA seed potato inspection decisions, finding no procedural unfairness and no unreasonable decision.
The duty of procedural fairness required notice of the specific allegations against Vanovac but did not require the Immigration Division to identify in advance which specific non-exhaustive category in s.16 of the Regulations it might apply; the Division may consider s.16 as a whole and ask about alternative paragraphs without creating a new issue or breaching fairness, therefore no breach occurred and the appeal is dismissed.
The Federal Court allowed judicial review of an Immigration Appeal Division decision, finding the IAD’s plausibility and credibility inferences unreasonable.
The Court of Appeal allowed the Workers’ Compensation Board’s appeal, held the s. 97 test was met, and granted a statutory injunction against the respondents.
The application for judicial review is dismissed because the Board's decision awarding aggravated and punitive damages was reasonable: the Board considered the relevant Whiten factors and proportionality in the context of the case, provided justified, transparent and intelligible reasons that fall within the range of acceptable outcomes under Vavilov.