What is the adequacy of reasons for a decision-making by an administrative tribunal?

British Columbia, Canada


The following excerpt is from Powell v. British Columbia (Residential Tenancy Branch), 2015 BCSC 2046 (CanLII):

The adequacy of reasons in the context of decision-making by an administrative tribunal was recently dealt with in Samji v. HFBC Housing Foundation, 2012 BCSC 1367. In that case, the petitioner characterized the failure to provide adequate reasons as a stand-alone ground for review. Masuhara J. rejected this notion at para. 30:

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