Description:Canadian legislatures regularly assign what are truly courtfunctions to non-court, government tribunals. These executive branch"judicial" tribunals are surrogate courts and togethercomprise a little-known system of administrative justice that annuallymakes hundreds of thousands of contentious, life-altering judicialdecisions concerning the everyday rights of both individuals andbusinesses. This book demonstrates that, except perhaps in Quebec, the executivebranch's administrative justice system is a justice system inname only. Failing to conform to rule-of-law principles orconstitutional norms, its judicial tribunals are neither independentnor, in law, impartial and are only providentiallycompetent. "Unjust by Design" describes a system in transcendent need ofmajor restructuring. Written by a respected critic, it presents amodern theory of administrative justice fit for that purpose. It alsoprovides detailed blueprints for the changes the author believes wouldbe necessary if justice were to in fact assume its proper role inCanada's administrative justice system. This book will provoke a serious debate within the legal profession, the administrative justice system, the executive and legislativebranches of government, and perhaps within the public at large aboutthe structures and quality of our administrative justice system -and also about the reforms proposed in this book. For the convenienceof those who might wish to contribute to that debate, the author hasorganized an interactivewebsite, administrativejusticereform.ca, and invites allinterested parties to go there and talk to him and each other aboutthese important issues. To facilitate free and frank discussions, thewebsite will be structured to allow participants to elect to have theirnames held in confidence if they wish to do so.Ron Ellis is an administrative lawlawyer, teacher, academic, arbitrator, and former chair and CEO of amajor administrative judicial tribunal. He has been teaching, speaking, and writing about administrative justice system issues for more thanthirty years.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Unjust by Design: Canada’s Administrative Justice System (Law and Society). To get started finding Unjust by Design: Canada’s Administrative Justice System (Law and Society), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.
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Unjust by Design: Canada’s Administrative Justice System (Law and Society)
Description: Canadian legislatures regularly assign what are truly courtfunctions to non-court, government tribunals. These executive branch"judicial" tribunals are surrogate courts and togethercomprise a little-known system of administrative justice that annuallymakes hundreds of thousands of contentious, life-altering judicialdecisions concerning the everyday rights of both individuals andbusinesses. This book demonstrates that, except perhaps in Quebec, the executivebranch's administrative justice system is a justice system inname only. Failing to conform to rule-of-law principles orconstitutional norms, its judicial tribunals are neither independentnor, in law, impartial and are only providentiallycompetent. "Unjust by Design" describes a system in transcendent need ofmajor restructuring. Written by a respected critic, it presents amodern theory of administrative justice fit for that purpose. It alsoprovides detailed blueprints for the changes the author believes wouldbe necessary if justice were to in fact assume its proper role inCanada's administrative justice system. This book will provoke a serious debate within the legal profession, the administrative justice system, the executive and legislativebranches of government, and perhaps within the public at large aboutthe structures and quality of our administrative justice system -and also about the reforms proposed in this book. For the convenienceof those who might wish to contribute to that debate, the author hasorganized an interactivewebsite, administrativejusticereform.ca, and invites allinterested parties to go there and talk to him and each other aboutthese important issues. To facilitate free and frank discussions, thewebsite will be structured to allow participants to elect to have theirnames held in confidence if they wish to do so.Ron Ellis is an administrative lawlawyer, teacher, academic, arbitrator, and former chair and CEO of amajor administrative judicial tribunal. He has been teaching, speaking, and writing about administrative justice system issues for more thanthirty years.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Unjust by Design: Canada’s Administrative Justice System (Law and Society). To get started finding Unjust by Design: Canada’s Administrative Justice System (Law and Society), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.