Fifteen years ago, in Babcock v. Canada (A.G.), the Supreme Court of Canada held that section 39 of the Canada Evidence Act, which deprives judges of the power to inspect and order the production of Cabinet confidences in litigation, did not offend the rule of law and the provisions of the Constitution. The aim of this article is to revisit this controversial ruling and challenge the Supreme Court’s reasoning. The first part seeks to demonstrate that the Supreme Court adopted a very thin conception of the rule of law in its jurisprudence, a conception which is of limited use as a normative framework to assess the legality of statutory provisions. To that end, the author turns to the thicker theory of law as justification which insists upon ...
This dissertation explores the tension between government openness and secrecy. It focuses on Cabine...
The Supreme Court’s decision in the Patriation Reference was a landmark in the jurisprudential analy...
The author provides an analysis and critique of the various types of arguments advanced by Canadian ...
I n Collins v. Virginia, 138 S. Ct. 1663, 1675 (2018), Justice Thomas suggested in a concurring opin...
This article assesses the constitutionalfoundation by which Parliament lends its lawmaking powers to...
Assessments of “reasonableness” are central to adjudicating claims under several Charter rights and ...
It has become increasingly common for courts in constitutional democracies to invalidate constitutio...
Although the Supreme Court of Canada’s seminal decision in Dunsmuir v. New Brunswick has now been ci...
In Canada (Attorney General) v. Federation of Law Societies of Canada, a majority of the Supreme Cou...
This paper explores the uses and abuses of relying upon legislative fact evidence to prove a violati...
Concentrating on Canadian experience, specifically litigation under the Canadian Charter of Rights a...
Canadian citizens’ inability to access courts has been a subject of controversy for decades. Despite...
The object of this paper is to show that rules of evidence are often unworkable in s. 1 Canadian Cha...
In the Senate Reform Reference of 2014, the Supreme Court of Canada declared the Harper government’s...
A limited form of judicial review has always been a prominent feature of Canadian federalism. Immedi...
This dissertation explores the tension between government openness and secrecy. It focuses on Cabine...
The Supreme Court’s decision in the Patriation Reference was a landmark in the jurisprudential analy...
The author provides an analysis and critique of the various types of arguments advanced by Canadian ...
I n Collins v. Virginia, 138 S. Ct. 1663, 1675 (2018), Justice Thomas suggested in a concurring opin...
This article assesses the constitutionalfoundation by which Parliament lends its lawmaking powers to...
Assessments of “reasonableness” are central to adjudicating claims under several Charter rights and ...
It has become increasingly common for courts in constitutional democracies to invalidate constitutio...
Although the Supreme Court of Canada’s seminal decision in Dunsmuir v. New Brunswick has now been ci...
In Canada (Attorney General) v. Federation of Law Societies of Canada, a majority of the Supreme Cou...
This paper explores the uses and abuses of relying upon legislative fact evidence to prove a violati...
Concentrating on Canadian experience, specifically litigation under the Canadian Charter of Rights a...
Canadian citizens’ inability to access courts has been a subject of controversy for decades. Despite...
The object of this paper is to show that rules of evidence are often unworkable in s. 1 Canadian Cha...
In the Senate Reform Reference of 2014, the Supreme Court of Canada declared the Harper government’s...
A limited form of judicial review has always been a prominent feature of Canadian federalism. Immedi...
This dissertation explores the tension between government openness and secrecy. It focuses on Cabine...
The Supreme Court’s decision in the Patriation Reference was a landmark in the jurisprudential analy...
The author provides an analysis and critique of the various types of arguments advanced by Canadian ...