Administrative Law – What Justice Lawyers Should Know (016022)
Overview
Delivery method
Virtual classroom
Duration
3 hours (French session over 2 days)
Audience
Legal Professionnals
Description
French session over 2 days
- January 29, 2025 (1:00pm - 2:30pm ET)
- January 30, 2025 (1:00pm - 2:30pm ET)
This course will enable participants to review the fundamental principles of administrative law, to appreciate their rationales, and to understand how they interact. For more information, see the list of topics below.
Topics covered
- Overview of administrative law
- Sources and types of administrative decision-making authority
- Exercising discretionary power
- Delegation of authority
- The rule of functus officio
- Principles of procedural fairness: applicability and content
- Available remedies, especially judicial review
Presented by the Constitutional, Administrative and International Law Section in collaboration with the Legal Practices Policy Division (LPPD)
Registration deadline: 5 working days prior to the course date.
Participants are responsible for adding their training activities to their Outlook calendars.
Accommodation measures: The Department of Justice is committed to providing an inclusive and barrier-free learning environment. If you have any accessibility needs in order to fully participate in the training activity, please contact your manager to discuss your needs. You may also call upon the services of the Centre for Workplace Access-Ability, Health and Wellness to help identify what type of accommodation measures you require.
For more information: Contact the Centre for Legal Education Services.
For information about the continuing professional development (CPD) hours for this course, please consult the 2025 Accreditation Summary.
Click here for the 2024 Accreditation Summary.
Click here for the 2023 Accreditation Summary.
If you have questions concerning the accreditation, please contact our accreditation team by email (Accreditations@justice.gc.ca).
