How have the reasons of a tribunal decision been interpreted by chambers judges?
Yukon, Canada
The following excerpt is from Workers' Compensation Act (Re) and O'Donnell, 2008 YKCA 9 (CanLII):
It must be remembered that the Tribunal members who wrote the decision are not judges or lawyers and cannot be expected to craft their reasons with absolute clarity. While one might wish for greater precision in the language of the decision, the task of the chambers judge was to make sense of it. The principle was well stated in Helgesen v. British Columbia (Superintendent of Motor Vehicles), 2002 BCSC 1391:
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