Is an administrative tribunal bound by the rules of fairness and natural justice?
Alberta, Canada
The following excerpt is from Holloway v. Calgary (City) Subdivision and Development Appeal Board, 2009 ABCA 392 (CanLII):
In Prassad v. Canada (Minister of Employment and Immigration), 1989 CanLII 131 (SCC), [1989] 1 S.C.R. 560, the court stated at 568-69: [A]n administrative tribunal... these tribunals are considered to be masters in their own house. In the absence of specific rules laid down by statute or regulation, they control their own procedures subject to the proviso that they comply with the rules of fairness and, where they exercise judicial or quasi-judicial functions, the rules of natural justice.
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