Course Chairs
Justice Karrie A. Wolfe — Supreme Court of BC, Victoria
Kaitlyn Chewka — Lovett Westmacott, Victoria
About the Course Chairs
Justice Karrie Wolfe graduated from the University of Victoria Faculty of Law in 2004. She articled with the Legal Services Branch of the BC Ministry of Attorney General and was called to the BC bar in 2005. Justice Wolfe spent the majority of her career as a barrister with the Ministry of Attorney General, specializing in constitutional and administrative law. She appeared at all levels of court in BC and at the Supreme Court of Canada. Her public law expertise engaged issues such as safe injection sites, free speech in elections, environmental regulation, and minority language education rights. She also held various supervisory roles and wrote constitutional opinions. Justice Wolfe was appointed King's Counsel in 2023. In February 2024, Justice Wolfe was appointed to the Supreme Court of BC.
Justice Wolfe is a member of the editorial board and a contributing author to CLEBC's Administrative Law Practice Manual. She has also been a frequent presenter at various legal education programs, and regularly volunteers as a practice judge for moots and as a guest lecturer at UVic's Faculty of Law, primarily in administrative law and advocacy. Justice Wolfe has been actively involved in community theatre for decades.
Kaitlyn Chewka is a partner with the firm Lovett Westmacott. Prior to joining Lovett Westmacott, Kaitlyn was legal counsel with the Ministry of Attorney General's Constitutional and Administrative Law Section.
Kaitlyn provides advice to various administrative decision-makers and regularly acts as counsel on judicial review applications and any resulting appeals. Kaitlyn is also an Adjunct Professor at the University of Victoria where she teaches administrative law and regularly lectures on the topics of civil procedure, criminal procedure, advocacy, ethics, and energy law. She is also a co-coach for the University of Victoria's Wilson moot team, which focuses on appellate advocacy skills.
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British Columbia Administrative Law Practice Manual
Strategies for effective administrative law advocacy
This publication is essential for: Lawyers, decision-makers, and judges whose work involves federal or BC administrative law decision-making
Current to: May 1, 2023
Administrative law is complex and requires specialized knowledge. British Columbia Administrative Law Practice Manual offers you a guide to navigating administrative law and procedure with advice on fundamental administrative law concepts, case preparation and advocacy, the role of evidence and parties, and the process for reviews and appeals. Covering decision-makers and courts at both federal and provincial levels, this manual provides access to sample forms annotated with commentary and a curated bibliography of other useful administrative law resources.
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Highlights of the 2023 Update include:
- post-Vavilov developments in standard of review and procedural fairness jurisprudence at SCC and below, impact on lower authorities
- SCC: new correctness category in context of concurrent first-instance jurisdiction between courts and administrative bodies
- SCC: institutional role of interveners
- BCCA: new correctness category in context of jurisdictional boundaries between administrative decision-makers and legislative bodies
- FCA: development in the test for intervention at the Federal Court
- expansion of test for legal threshold for standing
- increasing prevalence of appointment of amici curiae
- JRPA amendment to enable judicial review of Indigenous governing bodies when consent agreements reached for joint decision-making