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W. Wesley Pue,

CONTENTS

Table of Cases

  1. INTRODUCTION
    1. Fair Procedure
    2. Departure from the modern orthodoxy
    3. Natural justice: a modern synthesis
  2. THE DOCTRINE OF FAIRNESS
    1. Criteria giving rise to a duty to act fairly
      1. The nadir: Nakkuda Ali and Copithorne
      2. English rejection of Nakkuda Ali
      3. A tortuous tale
      4. Return to L'Alliance
      5. The duty to act fairly
      6. Abuse of Durayappah
    2. Adherence to a particular exercise of a power
      1. Employees dismissible at pleasure
      2. Admission of aliens to citizenship
      3. Town planning powers
      4. Trade and professional situations
      5. The content of fairness
      6. Consequences of breach of fair procedure
  3. THE EXTENT OF THE SUPERVISORY JURISDICTION OF THE COURTS
    1. Thresholds
      1. Rights
      2. Rights in the 1970s
      3. Canadian rights in the 1980s
      4. Rights: thresholds or indicators of content?
      5. Umpire's discretion
      6. Preliminary decisions
    2. Ranges
    3. Exclusion clauses and waiver of fair procedure
      1. Domestic tribunals: the contractual basis of their powers
      2. Waiver of natural justice in the in the course of proceedings
        1. Non-obstructive plaintiff
        2. Protesting plaintiff
        3. Jurisdictional defects
      3. "Soft" exclusion clauses
      4. Statutory exclusion of natural justice
        1. The case for exclusion by code
          1. Cooper v. Wandsworth
          2. Expressio unius
          3. Deference to the Legislature
          4. Policy arguments
        2. The current Canadian attitude to expressio unius
        3. Canadian bills of rights
      5. The nature of the decision-maker
  4. THE CONTENT OF FAIR PROCEDURE
    1. Notice
    2. Examiniation of reports and secret evidence
    3. Particulars
    4. Oral hearing
    5. Adjournment
    6. Cross-examination
    7. Counsel
    8. Open court
    9. Hearing by the decision-maker
    10. The rule against bias
    11. Right to reasons
  5. REMEDIES FOR BREACH OF NATURAL JUSTICE
    1. R. v. Electricity Commissioners
    2. Review under s.28 of the Federal Court Act
    3. Exhaustion of internal appeals as a prerequisite to judicial review
      1. Void vs. Voidable
      2. King v. University of Saskatchewan
      3. White v. Kuzych
      4. The discretionary nature of prerogative remedies
  6. CONCLUSION