Ending week one

Yesterday I had to go into work so I didn't work on any schoolwork. Today I completed Unit 3 of Admin Law - Procedural Fairness. Basically talking about the rules of natural justice and procedural fairness (the right to be notified of a decision and to be heard, and the right to an impartial decision maker) in the context of tribunals and other government decision makers.

As an added bonus, part of the assigned reading was the Supreme Court of Canada case of Baker v. Canada, which is an appeal of an immigration judicial review decision of the Federal Court. It's a landmark case that was oft quoted in my days of working at the Court so I just needed a quick skim to refresh my memory. Although in 'real life', it is important jurisprudence for establishing that the UN Convention on the Rights of Children does not extend to Canadian law to the extent of preventing the separation of Canadian born children from immigrant parents by nullifying deportation orders, in this course it was presented because it explains the right to procedural fairness in making a decision.

I then began Unit 2 of Employment Law only to discover that at the end of the unit, I have to write a 2000 word essay that sums up the first two chapters. I hope to finish the unit and get the first cut of the essay out tomorrow. I'm a fan of writing a 'quick and dirty' first draft and then setting it aside for awhile before doing a thorough edit.

In other news, I received my final grades for PHIL333 (Professional Ethics) and managed an A- in it. Pretty good for the low effort I put into it, especially at the end. I'm still waiting on my grade in ADMN233 (Business Communications) but I expect it will be decent as I did not find the material terribly challenging.