Can a judicially review an administrative action when an equally effective appeal exists?
Saskatchewan, Canada
The following excerpt is from McDonald and Dykes v. Moose Jaw et al., 1986 CanLII 2966 (SK QB):
Counsel for the respondents submitted that, generally speaking, a court should not exercise its discretion to judicially review any administrative action when an equally effective appeal exists: Harelkin v. university of Regina, 1979 CanLII 18 (SCC), [1979] 2 S.C.R. 561; [1979] 3 W.W.R. 676; 26 N.R. 364.
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