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The Law Reform Commission of Canada and Lawyers' Approaches to Public Administration: A Review Essay

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 July 2014

W. Wesley Pue
W. Wesley Pue
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Department of Law, Carleton University
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Canadian Journal of Law and Society / La Revue Canadienne Droit et Société , Volume 2 , 1987 , pp. 165 - 175
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Copyright © Canadian Law and Society Association 1987

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Notes

1. Arthurs, H.W., “Rethinking Administrative Law: A Slightly Dicey Business,” Osgoode Hall Law Journal 17, no. 1 (1979), 2Google Scholar.

2. Ibid., 1.

3. Law Reform Commission of Canada, The Legal Status of the Federal Administration, Working Paper 40 (Ottawa: Minister of Supply and Services Canada, 1985)Google Scholar. (Principal Consultant: Daniel Mockle.)

4. Law Reform Commission of Canada, Report on Independent Administrative Agencies: A Framework for Decision Making, Report 26 (Ottawa: Minister of Supply and Services Canada, 1985)Google Scholar.

5. The Legal Status of the Federal Administration, 86.

6. Ibid., 87.

7. Ibid., 69.

8. Ibid., 70.

9. Ibid., 71.

10. Ibid., 74.

11. Ibid., 76.

12. Ibid., 76.

13. Ibid., 77.

14. Ibid., 81.

15. Ibid., 87.

16. Ibid., 88.

17. Ibid., 88 (emphasis in original).

18. See, for example, Miliband, Ralph, “Political Action, Determinism and Contingency,” in Miliband, Ralph, Class Power and State Power (London: Verso Editions and NLB, 1983), 131–153Google Scholar.

19. The Legal Status of the Federal Administration, 2.

20. Ibid., 3.

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24. Ibid., 53.

25. Ibid., 78.

26. Ibid., 53.

27. Ibid., 52.

28. Ibid., 3 (emphasis added).

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44. The Legal Status of the Federal Administration, 86.

45. Ibid., 85.

46. Ibid., 85.

47. Report on Independent Administrative Agencies: A Framework for Decision Making, 8-9.

48. Simple theories of state-wide value consensus as a foundation of law are now more or less uniformly rejected. See, for example, Goode, M.R., “Law Reform Commission of Canada—Political Ideology of Criminal Process Reform,” Canadian Bar Review (1976), 653–674Google Scholar; Charles Reasons and Rich, Robert, The Sociology of Law: A Conflict Perspective (Toronto: Butterworths, 1978)Google Scholar; Mark Liddle, review of The Canadian Legal System, by Gall, Gerald L., Canadian Criminology Forum 4 (1982), 166Google Scholar.

49. Report on Independent Administrative Agencies, 11.

50. Though not entirely. See Ibid., 53.

51. The Legal Status of the Federal Administration, 4.

52. This latter is mostly in the form of an articulation of “natural justice” requirements. See Ibid., 47-72.

53. Political Economy of Environmental Hazards, 76.

54. Ibid., 76.

55. Ibid., 77.

56. Report on Independent Administrative Agencies, 18.

57. Ibid., 19.

58. Ibid., 70-71.

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62. Report on Independent Administrative Agencies, 41.

63. Ibid., 42.

64. Harris, Phil, “Approaches to the Teaching of Law Through Social Science Perspectives,” Working Paper 3, Jurisprudence Centre, Department of Law, Carleton University, Ottawa.Google Scholar