The Court dismissed an application for judicial review of the Human Rights Commission’s decision to dismiss the Applicant’s allegations of discrimination, but allowed her application with respect to an allegation of retaliation

25. October 2005 0
Administrative law – Human rights complaints – Discrimination – Disability – Employment law – Conditions of employment – Decisions of administrative tribunals – Human Rights Commission – Investigations – Evidence – Jurisdiction – Judicial review – Compliance with legislation – Limitations of actions – Procedural requirements and fairness – Standard of review – Correctness Dubois v. Canada (Attorney ...

DRL Vacations Ltd. (“DRL”) was unsuccessful in seeking judicial review of the decision of the Halifax Port Authority to select a vendor other than DRL to operate a retail market catering outlet for the passengers and crew of cruise ships entering the Port of Halifax

27. September 2005 0
Administrative law – Administrative tribunals – Definition – Judicial review – Jurisdiction of Federal court – Port Authority – Vendor selection process DRL Vacations Ltd. v. Halifax Port Authority, [2005] F.C.J. No. 1060, Federal Court, June 15, 2005, Mactavish J. DRL submitted that although the HPA had formulated a process entitled a “Request for Proposals”, ...

A 25-year veteran (“Read”) of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (“RCMP”) did not succeed on judicial review from the decision of the Assistant Commissioner that he had breached the RCMP Code of Conduct and should be dismissed for discussing an investigation into suspected criminal activity in and about the Immigration Section of the Canadian Mission in Hong Kong with the media, when he had earlier sworn an Oath of Secrecy

26. July 2005 0
Administrative law – Police – Royal Canadian Mounted Police – Disciplinary proceedings – Penalties and suspensions – Whistle-blower defence – Evidence – Public interest test – Judicial review – Standard of review – Correctness – Reasonableness simpliciter Read v. Canada (Attorney General), [2005] F.C.J. No. 990, Federal Court, June 2, 2005, Harrington J. In 1991 and ...

The Federal Court of Appeal overturned a lower court decision in respect of access to a legal advice memorandum commissioned by the Canadian government regarding a series of Access to Information Requests. Solicitor-client privilege was held to apply to prevent the Commissioner from accessing the memo.

26. July 2005 0
Administrative law – Freedom of information and protection of privacy – Disclosure – Access to information – Production of records – Prime Minister’s Office – Legal memorandum – Solicitor-client privilege – Judicial review – Compliance with legislation – Standard of review – Correctness Canada (Attorney General) v. Canada (Information Commissioner), [2005] F.C.J. No. 926, Federal Court of Appeal, ...

The Court allowed the Applicants’ application for judicial review and set aside a report by the Public Service Integrity Officer (“PSIO”) concerning allegations by the Applicants of wrongdoing at Health Canada. The Court found that the PSIO had failed to conduct the investigation in accordance with its mandate, by failing to address the concerns of the Applicants, and thereby making an error in law.

28. June 2005 0
Administrative law – Decisions of administrative tribunals – Public Service Integrity Officer – Investigations – Jurisdiction – Public interest – Judicial review – Disclosure – Standard of review – Correctness – Reasonableness simpliciter Chopra v. Canada (Attorney General), [2005] F.C.J. No. 712, Federal Court, April 29, 2005, O’Keefe J. The four Applicants were employees of the ...

A former RCMP cadet and Muslim (“Tahmourpour”) successfully appealed from the dismissal of his human rights complaint on the basis that the investigator had failed to investigate obviously crucial evidence and had thereby breached the duty of fairness. The matter was remitted back to the Human Rights Commission.

28. June 2005 0
Administrative law – Decisions of administrative tribunals – Human Rights Commission – Investigations – Human rights complaints – Discrimination – Judicial review – Procedural requirements and fairness – Witnesses Tahmourpour v. Canada (Solicitor General), [2005] F.C.J. No. 543, Federal Court of Appeal, April 6, 2005, Rothstein, Sexton and Evan JJ.A. Tahmourpour, a Canadian citizen of Middle Eastern ...

The Court dismissed this application by a journalist and his employer, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, for judicial review of a decision of the Respondent’s Board of Inquiry which had denied the Applicants access to the Board’s hearings into the fires aboard the HMCS Chicoutimi

24. May 2005 0
Administrative law – National defence – Freedom of information and protection of privacy – Media access to hearings – Judicial review – Quasi-judicial tribunals – In camera hearings – Procedural requirements and fairness – Discretion of delegated authority – Standard of review – Correctness – Reasonableness simpliciter Gordon v. Canada (Minister of National Defence), [2005] ...

Applications for judicial review were brought on three issues: (1) is the Copyright Act section imposing levies on recordable media using for copying music constitutional or is this set of levies actually a system of taxation? (2) is the zero-rating program, under which certain groups of purchasers of recordable media are excused from paying the private copying levies permissible, and should it be taken into account when the Canadian Private Copying Collective (“CPCC”) sets levies? and (3) are MP3 players and/or their embedded memory properly subject to levies under the Act? The Court of Appeal dismissed the first two applications for judicial review and allowed the third, finding that the Act did not contain authority for the imposition of levies on MP3 player embedded memory

22. February 2005 0
Administrative law – Intellectual property – Copyright – Levies and taxes – Recorded music – Decisions of administrative tribunals – Copyright Board – Judicial review – Compliance with legislation – Standard of review – Correctness – Reasonableness simpliciter Canada (Canadian Private Copying Collective) v. Canadian Storage Media Alliance, [2004] F.C.J. No 2115, Federal Court of Appeal, December ...

An application for judicial review pertaining to a decision made by the Commissioner of the Financial Consumer Agency of Canada was allowed as the Court found that the Commissioner breached the rules of natural justice as particularized in the Financial Consumer Agency of Canada Act

25. January 2005 0
Administrative law – Decisions of administrative tribunals – Financial Consumer Agency – Natural justice – Judicial review – Procedural requirements and fairness – Compliance with legislation MBNA Canada Bank v. Canada (Financial Consumer Agency), [2004] F.C.J. No. 2037, Federal Court of Appeal, November 26, 2004, Von Finckenstein J. The appellant, MBNA Canada Bank (“MBNA”), was an issuer ...

A fisherman (“Decker”) succeeded on his application for judicial review of the decision of the Minister of Fisheries and Oceans (the “Minister”) refusing his application for a shrimp licence

28. December 2004 0
Administrative law – Fisheries – Licence applications – Permits and licences – Decisions of administrative tribunals – Ministerial – Judicial review – Evidence Decker v. Canada (Attorney General), [2004] F.C.J. No 1762, Federal Court, October 20, 2004, O’Keefe J. Decker was a core enterprise fisher in Newfoundland and Labrador holding a groundfish licence. In April of 1997, the ...