Legal Ethics – Getting SLAPPed by Costs?

This paper was presented at the 2nd Annual Ontario Bar Association’s Maintaining Professionalism in the Municipal Law Context Program. OVERVIEW This paper will consider the advocates’ dual professional obligations, to […]

Consistency in Tribunal Decision-Making

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Why Consistency? Consistency exists where like facts produce like results. In adjudicative decision-making, consistency is a precondition of equality before the law and a prerequisite to the Rule of Law. […]

Not at Fault? You May Still Pay

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The recent decision of the Divisional Court in the case of The Corporation of the City of Kawartha Lakes v Director, Ministry of the Environment (the Kawartha Lakes Decision), is […]