Revise, Revise, Revise: The Path to Good Decision Writing
The task of a [decision-maker] is to find the golden mean, to “decant and simplify,” to synthesize the evidence and make the necessary findings; the task is not to be a court reporter.
Welton v. United Lands Corporation Limited, 2020 ONCA 322
Writing is one thing, but rewriting is the real messy thing.
William Germano, “On Revision: the only writing that counts”
Courts are very good at giving advice to administrative decision-makers on how to write reasonable decisions, but often that advice is too general. In Canada (Minister of Citizenship and Immigration) v. Vavilov, 2019 SCC 65 (at . . . [more]