What is the impact of having a non-judicial board of directors on decision-makers' conduct?

British Columbia, Canada


The following excerpt is from Hunt v. The Owners, Strata Plan LMS 2556, 2018 BCCA 159 (CanLII):

The closer the function of the board is to the judicial function of adjudicating a dispute, the more decision-makers will be expected to comply closely with the standards expected of judges, including conducting themselves to avoid a reasonable apprehension of bias: Nfld. Telephone at 636–637, 638; Szilard v. Szasz, 1954 CanLII 4 (SCC), [1955] S.C.R. 3.

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