Bibliographic record
Abstract
This paper examines the requirement contained in some legislation that a prospective appellant first obtain leave or permission from a superior court to proceed with an appeal from a statutory decision in Canada. The general test for leave is that the appeal raise a question of significance and that the appeal has a reasonable chance of success. This study examines leave decisions made by Alberta courts, and the results suggest the discretionary nature of a leave to appeal application is producing inconsistent decisions on what constitutes an appeal of sufficient significance and merit to meet the test for leave. That such an important gatekeeping measure for judicial oversight on the exercise of statutory power could even have the potential to be seen as partisan or arbitrary is something which should be untenable in the Canadian legal system. A more principled application of the test for leave to appeal a statutory decision is warranted.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.031 | 0.164 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.004 | 0.003 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.009 | 0.050 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.015 | 0.015 |
| Open science | 0.005 | 0.004 |
| Research integrity | 0.010 | 0.010 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.007 | 0.001 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".