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[C]ourt and agency are not to be regarded as wholly independent and unrelated instrumentalities of justice, each acting in the performance of its prescribed statutory duty without regard to the appropriate function of the other in securing the plainly indicated objects of the statute. Court and agency are the means adopted to obtain the prescribed end… Neither body should repeat in this day the mistake made by the courts of law when equity was struggling for recognition as an ameliorating system of justice; neither can rightly be regarded by the other as an alien intruder, to be tolerated if must be, but never to be encouraged or aided by the other in the attainment of the common aim…1
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B. Laskin, Laskin’s Canadian Constitutional Law 793–96 (4th ed. rev. 1975).
T. Mathiesen, Guide to European Community Law 163–66 (1972).
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Abel, A.S. (1979). Courts and Tribunals: Partners in Justice. In: Jessup, P.C. (eds) Jus et Societas. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-9321-1_1
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