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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