Hilary Evans Cameron

Substantial deference and tribunal expertise post-Dunsmuir: A new approach to reasonableness review

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By: Hilary Evans Cameron The Supreme Court recently made clear that judges applying the unified reasonableness standard of review developed in Dunsmuir v New Brunswick should not approach different types of tribunal decisions with different levels of difference. This has created more problems than it has solved. This paper argues that the law should instead recognize that, within the reasonable standard, some tribunal decisions are owed more deference than others. Specifically, the law should distinguish […]

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The E-Team Project: A Teamwork Approach to Clinical Legal Education

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By: Hilary Evans Cameron In this “The E-Team Project: A Teamwork Approach to Clinical Legal Education” Hilary Evans Cameron argues that the University of Toronto’s Emergency Team (E-Team)—a student pilot project created to assist people facing deportation on short notice—provided a critical service to its clients and gave its student members a unique opportunity to learn real-world legal skills. The first part of this article reviews the project’s outcomes and concludes that it was a

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Refugee Status Determinations and the Limits of Memory

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By: Hilary Evans Cameron Refugee status decision makers typically have unreasonable expectations of what and how people remember. Many assume that our minds record all aspects of the events that we experience, and that these memories are stored in our brains and remain unchanged over time. Decades of psychological research has demonstrated, however, that our memories are neither so complete nor so stable, even setting aside the effects on memory of trauma and stress. Whole

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