Shared Goals, Divided Jurisdiction: The Uneasy Relationship Between Class Actions and Administrative Law
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
Abstract: Access to justice is a critical problem facing Canadian courts. To address access to justice issues in the civil context, legislatures created both the class action procedure within the courts and administrative schemes as alternatives to the courts. Despite their shared access to justice goals, administrative law principles prevent class actions from being advanced in areas that are governed by an administrative scheme. This paper explores the practical effect of this jurisdictional conflict by comparing the relative benefits of class actions to statutory dispute resolution processes. In cases where jurisdictional conflicts arise, the prospective class members who suffer the most when a claim is diverted to an administrative scheme are those who require provisions such as contingency fee arrangements, a representative plaintiff, and the protections afforded by the judicial oversight of litigation. I suggest that the legislature could further the access to justice and judicial economy objectives of both class proceedings and these administrative schemes by incorporating these provisions into administrative schemes, or by allowing the superior court to assume jurisdiction of mass claims in appropriate circumstances.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
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| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 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 it