Thursday, July 4, 2013

SCC denies former Ottawa U prof’s judicial bias appeal (media article)


SCC denies former Ottawa U prof’s judicial bias appeal (LINK)

by Heather Gardiner, Legal Feeds, July 4, 2013


Chronology and background documents are HERE.
SCC = Supreme Court of Canada.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Denis, does this mean that you cannot get your job back in the university?

Denis Rancourt said...

@Anonymous:
No, no, no. The civil lawsuit and the labour arbitration are two different processes. The SCC application arose from the civil lawsuit, in which I was trying to obtain a judicial determination of reasonable apprehension of bias of a judge. I brought a motion for reasonable apprehension of bias and it was never heard on its merits. I wanted the SCC to find that any such motion about bias must be heard because lack of even just apparent bias is centrally important to the legal system in a free and democratic society.