Welcome to Cases That Should Have Gone to the Supreme Court of Canada, But Didn’t! This week, lawyer Kyla Lee discusses the Deliberative Secrecy of Administrative Tribunals.
Acumen Law Corporation lawyer Kyla Lee gives her take on a made-in-Canada court case each week and discusses why these cases should have been heard by Canada’s highest court: the Supreme Court of Canada.
Richard Timm was an inmate at a correctional institution who filed a grievance about a disciplinary action that was being brought against him. That grievance was decided against him as well.
He brought an action in court suing members of the correctional institution staff arguing that they had treated him unfairly and as part of his litigation, he sought access to the decision making records for the tribunal that dealt with his grievance.
This request was dismissed on the basis that they’re protected by administrative secrecy, also known as the deliberative secrecy of administrative tribunals.
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