Wall v. Highwood Congregation of Jehovah's Witnesses et al., 2016 ABCA 255

JudgePaperny, Rowbotham and Wakeling, JJ.A.
CourtCourt of Appeal (Alberta)
Case DateThursday September 08, 2016
Citations2016 ABCA 255

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  • Highwood Congregation of Jehovah’s Witnesses (Judicial Committee) v. Wall
    • Canada
    • Supreme Court (Canada)
    • May 31, 2018
    ...Canada, 2nd ed. Toronto: Carswell, 2012. APPEAL from a judgment of the Alberta Court of Appeal (Paperny, Rowbotham and Wakeling JJ.A.), 2016 ABCA 255, 43 Alta. L.R. (6th) 33 , 404 D.L.R. (4th) 48 , 12 Admin. L.R. (6th) 302 , 365 C.R.R. (2d) 40 , [2017] 2 W.W.R. 641 , [2016] A.J. No. 89......
  • Anglin v Resler
    • Canada
    • Court of Appeal (Alberta)
    • April 5, 2024
    ...order dismissing P's action on the ground that it discloses no cause of action”); Wall v. Highwood Congregation of Jehovah's Witnesses, 2016 ABCA 255, ¶ 84; 404 D.L.R. 4th 48, 82 per Wakeling, J.A. (“suppose … a person is unhappy that … she was not invited to her cousin's … wedding. She inv......
  • Reilly v Alberta
    • Canada
    • Court of Appeal (Alberta)
    • August 19, 2024
    ...or management failures as a ‘systemic’ issue’”). 169 Wall v. Judicial Committee of the Highwood Congregation of Jehovah's Witnesses, 2016 ABCA 255, ¶ 86; 404 D.L.R. 4th 48, 83, rev'd, 2018 SCC 26; [2018] 1 S.C.R. 750 per Wakeling, J.A., dissenting (“The list of differences that judges canno......
  • THE RIGHT TOOL FOR THE JOB? FREEDOM OF ASSOCIATION UNDER PROVINCIAL HUMAN RIGHTS CODES.
    • Canada
    • University of New Brunswick Law Journal No. 68, January 2017
    • January 1, 2017
    ...(at para 145). (135) See e.g. Wakeling JA's dissent in Wall v Judicial Committee of the Highwood Congregation of Jehovah's Witnesses, 2016 ABCA 255 at para 130ff (freedom of religion and freedom of association dictate that the courts should not intervene in religious organizations' membersh......
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  • Highwood Congregation of Jehovah’s Witnesses (Judicial Committee) v. Wall,
    • Canada
    • Supreme Court (Canada)
    • May 31, 2018
    ...Canada, 2nd ed. Toronto: Carswell, 2012. APPEAL from a judgment of the Alberta Court of Appeal (Paperny, Rowbotham and Wakeling JJ.A.), 2016 ABCA 255, 43 Alta. L.R. (6th) 33 , 404 D.L.R. (4th) 48 , 12 Admin. L.R. (6th) 302 , 365 C.R.R. (2d) 40 , [2017] 2 W.W.R. 641 , [2016] A.J. No. 89......
  • Anglin v Resler,
    • Canada
    • Court of Appeal (Alberta)
    • April 5, 2024
    ...order dismissing P's action on the ground that it discloses no cause of action”); Wall v. Highwood Congregation of Jehovah's Witnesses, 2016 ABCA 255, ¶ 84; 404 D.L.R. 4th 48, 82 per Wakeling, J.A. (“suppose … a person is unhappy that … she was not invited to her cousin's … wedding. She inv......
  • Reilly v Alberta,
    • Canada
    • Court of Appeal (Alberta)
    • August 19, 2024
    ...or management failures as a ‘systemic’ issue’”). 169 Wall v. Judicial Committee of the Highwood Congregation of Jehovah's Witnesses, 2016 ABCA 255, ¶ 86; 404 D.L.R. 4th 48, 83, rev'd, 2018 SCC 26; [2018] 1 S.C.R. 750 per Wakeling, J.A., dissenting (“The list of differences that judges canno......
  • Al-Ghamdi v College and Association of Registered Nurses of Alberta, 2017 ABQB 685
    • Canada
    • Court of Queen's Bench of Alberta (Canada)
    • November 15, 2017
    ...or “consensual tribunals” may be subject to judicial review. In Wall v Highwood Congregation of Jehovah’s Witnesses (Judicial Committee), 2016 ABCA 255, leave to appeal granted [2016] SCCA No 469,[3] Paperny and Rowbotham JJA considered a line of cases that suggest that courts have jurisdic......
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  • THE RIGHT TOOL FOR THE JOB? FREEDOM OF ASSOCIATION UNDER PROVINCIAL HUMAN RIGHTS CODES.
    • Canada
    • University of New Brunswick Law Journal No. 68, January 2017
    • January 1, 2017
    ...(at para 145). (135) See e.g. Wakeling JA's dissent in Wall v Judicial Committee of the Highwood Congregation of Jehovah's Witnesses, 2016 ABCA 255 at para 130ff (freedom of religion and freedom of association dictate that the courts should not intervene in religious organizations' membersh......
  • The Boundaries of Judicial Review Since Highwood Congregation of Jehovah's Witnesses v. Wall.
    • Canada
    • Queen's Law Journal Vol. 47 No. 1, September 2021
    • September 22, 2021
    .... (6.) 2011 FCA 347 [Air Canada]. (7.) See ibid. (8.) Wall v Judicial Committee of the Highwood Congregation of Jehovah's Witnesses, 2016 ABCA 255 at para 5 [Wall (9.) See ibid at para 9. (10.) See ibid at para 62. (11.) [1992] 3 SCR 165 , 97 DLR (4th) 17 [Hofer]. (12.) Supra note 8 at......
  • Religion, Public Law, and the Refuge of Formalism.
    • Canada
    • University of New Brunswick Law Journal No. 73, January 2022
    • January 1, 2022
    ...Wall, supra note 8 at para 6. (32) Ibid at para 3. (33) Wall v Judicial Committee of the Highwood Congregation of Jehovah 's Witnesses, 2016 ABCA 255 at para 4 [Wall (34) Ibid at para 5. (35) Ibid. (36) Admittedly, the factual background in Aga contains more detail, but this is arguably nec......