Publications & Cases

Laverne Jacobs, PhD
Associate Professor

Recent Publications 

•  Laverne Jacobs, “Evaluating Ombuds Oversight in the Canadian Access to Information Context:  A Theoretical and Empirical Inquiry” in Jacobs & Baglay, eds., The Nature of Inquisitorial Processes in Administrative Regimes: Global Perspectives, (Surrey, UK: Ashgate, 2013) (forthcoming).

• Laverne Jacobs,   « Contribuţii aduse studiului instituţiei Ombudsmanului: regimuri juridice polijurale şi impactul soluţionării conflictului în contextul canadian al liberului acces la informaţiile de interes public »in Dacian-Cosmin  Dragos and Bogdana Neamţu,  Instituţia Ombudsmanului: justitiţie alternativă? (Editura C.H. Beck: Bucharest (Romania), 2011) 185-212.(Romanian translation of “Building on the Ombudsman: Polyjuralism and the Impact of Dispute Resolution in the Canadian Access to Information Context”).

• Laverne Jacobs, "Caught between Judicial Paradigms and the Administrative State’s Pastiche: ‘Tribunal’ Independence, Impartiality, and Bias" in Administrative Law in Context , 2nd edition, Colleen M. Flood & Lorne Sossin eds. (Toronto: Emond Montgomery, 2012) 233-278. 

•  Laverne Jacobs, “The Nature of Inquisitorial Processes in Administrative Regimes: Global Perspectives - Research Workshop Report” (2011) 24 Canadian Journal of Administrative Law and Practice 261-283 (with Sasha Baglay, Melissa Kwok, Maria Mavrikkou & Ki Lin Tay).

• Laverne Jacobs, "Transnational and Comparative Administrative Law: Papers from the Sixth Administrative Law Discussion Forum, Québec City" (2010) 28(2) Windsor Yearbook of Access to Justice  v-ix (with Denis Lemieux & Russell Weaver).

• Laverne Jacobs, “A Wavering Commitment?: Administrative Independence and Collaborative Governance in Ontario’s Adjudicative Tribunals Accountability Legislation” (2010) 28(2) Windsor Yearbook of Access to Justice 285-307.

• Laverne Jacobs, “Developments in Administrative Law: The 2008-2009 Term – Contemplating Legislative (Im)Precision” (2009) 48 Supreme Court Law Review 43-70.

• Laverne A. Jacobs & Justice Anne L. Mactavish., eds., Dialogue Between Courts and Tribunals – Essays in Administrative Law and Justice (2001-2007) (Montreal: Les Éditions Thémis, 2008) 398pp.

• Laverne Jacobs, “Developments in Administrative Law: The 2007-2008 Term - The Impact of Dunsmuir” (2008) 43 Supreme Court Law Review (2d) 1-34.

• Laverne Jacobs, “Tribunal Independence and Impartiality: Rethinking the Theory after Bell and Ocean Port Hotel – A Call for Empirical Analysis” in Laverne A. Jacobs & Justice Anne L. Mactavish., eds., Dialogue Between Courts and Tribunals – Essays in Administrative Law and Justice (2001-2007) (Montreal: Les Éditions Thémis, 2008) 43-66.

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Notable Cases

• Smith v. Alliance Pipeline Ltd., 2011 SCC 7

• Canada (Attorney General) v. Quadrini, 2010 FCA 246 (CanLII)

• Commission des transports du Québec c. Villeneuve, 2009 QCCA 1558

•  Halifax (Regional Municipality) v. Nova Scotia (Human Rights Commission) [2008] NSCA 21

•  United Food and Commercial Workers International Union Canada v. Rol-Land Farms Limited, 2008 CanLII 6652 (Ont. Sup.Ct.Div.Ct.)

• ICASA v. Radio Mafisa, (decision of the Independent Communications Authority of South Africa, 2007)

•  Graham v. Workers Compensation Board of the Northwest Territories and Nunavut 2007 NWTSC 54

• Stephens v. Lynx Industries Inc., 2006 HRTO 31

• Alberta Liquor Store Association v. Alberta (Gaming and Liquor Commission), 2006 ABQB 904 (CanLII)
• Ontario (Children’s Lawyer) v. Ontario (Information and Privacy Commissioner) (2005) 196 O.A.C. 350, 2005 CanLII 11786 (ON C.A.)