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Ron Ellis - Unjust by Design: Canada’s Administrative Justice System - 9780774824774 - V9780774824774
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Unjust by Design: Canada’s Administrative Justice System

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Description for Unjust by Design: Canada’s Administrative Justice System Hardback. Series: Law & Society. Num Pages: 388 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBC; LND. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 30. Weight in Grams: 680.

Canadian legislatures regularly assign what are truly court functions to non-court, government tribunals. These executive branch “judicial” tribunals are surrogate courts and together comprise a little-known system of administrative justice that annually makes hundreds of thousands of contentious, life-altering judicial decisions concerning the everyday rights of both individuals and businesses.

This book demonstrates that, except perhaps in Quebec, the executive branch’s administrative justice system is a justice system in name only. Failing to conform to rule-of-law principles or constitutional norms, its judicial tribunals are neither independent nor, in law, impartial and are only providentially competent.

Unjust by Design describes a system in ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
University of British Columbia Press
Condition
New
Series
Law and Society
Number of Pages
388
Place of Publication
Vancouver, Canada
ISBN
9780774824774
SKU
V9780774824774
Shipping Time
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About Ron Ellis
Ron Ellis is an administrative law lawyer, teacher, academic, arbitrator, and former chair and CEO of a major administrative judicial tribunal. He has been teaching, speaking, and writing about administrative justice system issues for more than thirty years.

Reviews for Unjust by Design: Canada’s Administrative Justice System
The issues addressed in Unjust by Design are of critical, though largely unappreciated importance. Ron Ellis faced a significant challenge of persuasion: the tediousness of administrative law is dangerous because it can mask significant injustice ... But precisely because these are the workaday issues of our society, it is critical that they not be ignored and left subject to a ... Read more

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