Can a statutory court control its own process?

Nova Scotia, Canada


The following excerpt is from Reference re Public Services Sustainability (2015) Act, 2020 NSCA 53 (CanLII):

The Ontario Court of Appeal made a similar comment in R. v. Fercan Developments Inc., 2016 ONCA 269 at para. 51: A statutory court also has the power to control its own process. That power is necessarily implied in a legislative grant of power to function as a court of law: Cunningham v. Lilles, 2010 SCC 10, [2010] 1 S.C.R. 331 (S.C.C.), at para. 19.

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