Words, words, words … are not enough to constitute reasons. The Alberta Court of Appeal puts administrative decision makers on notice in recent judicial review case

In the recently released decision of Cavendish Farms Corporation v. Lethbridge (City)[1], the Alberta Court of Appeal allowed an appeal from an application for judicial review and ordered a municipal assessment board to hold a new hearing because the reasons for decision it issued were “very sparse,” did “little to illuminate the reasoning process that led to the conclusion reached,” and “failed to reveal a rational chain of analysis” that led to the decision.[2]

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[1] 2022 ABCA, 312 (Cavendish Farms).

[2] Cavendish Farms at paras. 25 and 30.