What is the substance of a decision-making process?

Ontario, Canada


The following excerpt is from Summitt Energy Management Inc. v. Ontario Energy Board, 2012 ONSC 2753 (CanLII):

The substance of the decision-making process includes what material was considered or not considered by the adjudicator, whether the adjudicator pre-judged the matter, and the extent to which the adjudicator was influenced by the views of others: Agnew v. Ontario Association of Architects, supra, at p. 17.

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