Does the duty of procedural fairness apply to the investigative stage of the administrative law process?

Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada


The following excerpt is from Flynn v. Newfoundland and Labrador, 2018 NLSC 29 (CanLII):

There is no longer any doubt that the duty of procedural fairness applies to the investigative stage of an administrative law process (Knight v. Indian Head School Division No. 19, 1990 CanLII 138 (SCC), [1990] 1 S.C.R. 653).

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