It would be a gross understatement to say that the Supreme Court of Canada’s decision in Dunsmuir v New Brunswick has had a significant impact on administrative law. Dunsmuir is, by far, the most cited case ever rendered by the Court, referred to in almost 15,000 reported decisions, dissected in more than 500 academic articles, and discussed at length in an untold number of conferences and continuing legal education seminars. Perhaps the breadth of judicial and academic consideration of Dunsmuir ought not to be surprising given that, through its reformulated standard of review analysis, the Court laid out a framework that purported to properly calibrate the contested distribution of decision-making power between the legislative, executive, and judicial branches of government. The Court also fundamentally altered the relationship between government employees and their employers by finding that no duty of procedural fairness is owed to dismissed employees when the law of contract otherwise applies. Given that the Supreme Court has announced its intention to soon reconsider Dunsmuir in a trilogy of cases in which it has granted leave to appeal, the need to fully understand the merits, demerits, and broader impact of the decision is even more urgent. This focus feature, which was originally germinated in a conference organized by the Canadian Institute for the Administration of Justice, represents a modest contribution to the rich scholarship that already exists on this important issue. In his article, Matthew Lewans situates Dunsmuir in the broader context of earlier landmark decisions decided by the Supreme Court of Canada, beginning with Roncarelli v Duplessis. In so doing, he makes the compelling argument that Dunsmuir severed an important link between the principles of procedural Robert Danay*

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邓斯缪尔焦点功能：介绍

如果说加拿大最高法院在 Dunsmuir v New Brunswick 一案中的裁决对行政法产生了重大影响，那就太轻描淡写了。到目前为止，邓斯缪尔是法院有史以来引用最多的案例，在近 15,000 份报告的裁决中提及，在 500 多篇学术文章中进行了剖析，并在无数会议和继续法律教育研讨会中进行了详细讨论。或许 Dunsmuir 的司法和学术考虑的广度不应该令人惊讶，因为通过重新制定的审查分析标准，法院制定了一个框架，旨在适当调整立法、行政部门之间有争议的决策权分配。和政府的司法部门。法院还裁定，当合同法另有规定时，被解雇的雇员不承担程序公平的义务，从而从根本上改变了政府雇员与其雇主之间的关系。鉴于最高法院已宣布打算很快在其已批准上诉的三部曲案件中重新考虑 Dunsmuir，因此更迫切需要充分了解该决定的优点、缺点和更广泛的影响。这一焦点专题最初是在加拿大司法行政研究所组织的一次会议上萌芽的，它代表了对这一重要问题上已经存在的丰富学术研究的适度贡献。在他的文章中，Matthew Lewans 将 Dunsmuir 置于加拿大最高法院早期具有里程碑意义的判决的更广泛背景中，从 Roncarelli v Duplessis 开始。在这样做时，他提出了令人信服的论点，即邓斯缪尔切断了程序原则之间的重要联系罗伯特·达奈*