AuthorMelania Soudouk

The lack of administrative oversight into vaccine exemptions

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Polio vaccination in POC 3 at UN House. The Ministry of Health has been conducting the 4th (and last) round of its national immunization campaign for 2014, targeting children aged 0 – 5 years. Magna, a local NGO, has been working with the Ministry of Health, with the support of UNICEF and WHO, with the aim of immunizing 300,000 children in Central Equatoria State, and 2.4 million children...

Government liability in tort

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The need to reanalyze the questions posed in Paradis Honey Ltd v Canada Since 2015, there has been a lack of progress in assessing whether a public body (such as the government) can be held liable for a tort. The case of Paradis Honey Ltd. v Canada, 2015 FCA 89 sought to answer arguably one of the most interesting administrative law questions of the last decade: “whether there can be sufficient...

The need for greater judicial oversight on administrative decisions

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A post-Covid era has demonstrated that tribunals are, in fact, capable of expanding access to justice. However, it is important to note that the same regulatory agencies that claim to be more inclusive refused to conduct virtual hearings before the pandemic unless some extenuating circumstances would enforce otherwise. On the one hand, scholars studying administrative law argue that tribunals...

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