Application by public interest advocacy groups for leave to intervene as amicus curiae in an appeal from decision dismissing involuntarily detained patient’s habeas corpus application

22. July 2014 0
Administrative law – Hearings – Parties – Judicial review – Application for intervenor status – Adult in need of protection – Charter of Rights and Freedoms – Remedies – Habeas corpus P.S. v. Ontario, [2014] O.J. No. 2853, 2014 ONCA 160, Ontario Court of Appeal, February 28, 2014, J.I. Laskin J.A. The appellant was involuntarily detained at ...

The Applicant, Financial Services Tribunal, was given leave to intervene on an appeal from a Chambers decision quashing one of its decisions

26. July 2011 0
Administrative law – Decisions of administrative tribunals – Registrar of Mortgage Brokers – Financial Services Tribunal – Mortgage brokers – Judicial review – Application for intervenor status – Appeals – Evidence – Compliance with legislation Westergaard v. British Columbia (Registrar of Mortgage Brokers), [2011] B.C.J. No. 990, 2011 BCCA 256, British Columbia Court of Appeal, ...

A man who had been found not guilty by reason of insanity for a first-degree murder he committed in his teens (“Leyshon-Hughes”) applied to quash decisions of the Ontario Review Board (the “Board”) adjourning his annual Review Board hearing and mandating provision of further medical evidence as to his risk of reoffending, and for an order requiring the ORB to establish a new Review Board panel to proceed forthwith with his annual Review Board hearing

24. July 2007 0
Administrative law – Criminal charges – Inmates Not Criminally Responsible for their crimes – Decisions of administrative tribunals – Review Board – Adult in need of protection – Danger to public – Mental health – Substitute decision maker – Judicial review – Application for intervenor status – Adjournment of hearing – Evidence – Procedural requirements and fairness – Natural ...

A tribunal with a statutory right of appearance in a review of its own decision is limited in its participation to explaining the record before it and making representations relating to jurisdiction. “Jurisdiction” in this context does not include the transgression of the authority of a tribunal by its failure to adhere to the rules of natural justice.

25. February 2003 0
Administrative law – Boards and tribunals – Jurisdiction – Right to appear in a review of its own decision – Judicial review – Application for intervenor status – Bias Eckervogt v. British Columbia (Minister of Employment and Investment), [2002] B.C.J. No.2755, British Columbia Court of Appeal, December 10, 2002, Smith J.A. The Appellant applied for compensation ...