Does the doctrine supporting finality of court decisions apply equally to decisions made by administrative officers or tribunals?

Manitoba, Canada


The following excerpt is from Loewen v. Manitoba Teachers’ Society, 2015 MBCA 13 (CanLII):

In Danyluk v. Ainsworth Technologies Inc., 2001 SCC 44 at para. 19, [2001] 2 S.C.R. 460, Binnie J. noted that the doctrines supporting the finality of court decisions apply equally to judicial or quasi-judicial decisions made by administrative officers or tribunals, and stating (at para. 21): These rules were initially developed in the context of prior court proceedings. They have since been extended, with some necessary modifications, to decisions classified as being of a judicial or quasi-judicial nature pronounced by administrative officers and tribunals. In that context the more specific objective is to balance fairness to the parties with the protection of the administrative decision-making process, whose integrity would be undermined by too readily permitting collateral attack or relitigation of issues once decided.

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