What standards of correctness and reasonableness apply to review of the decisions of administrative tribunals?

British Columbia, Canada


The following excerpt is from Kaminski v. Association of Professional Engineers, 2010 BCSC 468 (CanLII):

Much time was spent debating the applicability of the standards of correctness and reasonableness in the review of the decisions of administrative tribunals as articulated in cases such as Dunsmuir v. New Brunswick, 2008 SCC 9, [2008] 1 S.C.R. 190.

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