Foundation of Administrative Justice: Case Management Practices

CONTENT SCOPE
  • Managing objections/difficult parties
  • Questioning and witness handling
  • Handling of confidential
  • in camera sessions
  • requests for confidentiality?
  • Role of counsel? Consumer and other advocates?
  • Handling complaints – private and commercial
  • unrepresented litigants
  • financial vs service issues
  • remedies
  • Degree of questions from the panel
  • how administrative decision makers differ from a court
  • role of regulatory policy and the inability to fetter discretion (in the context of relying on precedent), rules of evidence, and requirement for sufficient reasons (and standard of review)
  • Intervenor management (keeping time, relevancy & scope) and balancing inclusivity (right to be heard) with efficiency.
  • Culturally Competent Adjudication and Human Rights Considerations
  • Pre-hearings such as case conferences, technical conferences and settlement conferences and how regulators can clarify objectives, ground rules, transparency and record requirements, streamlining proceedings without compromising independence or procedural fairness.
  • Ensuring the sufficiency of the evidence (e.g., subpoena power, etc.)
  • Adjudicative process design
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