The whole value of the legal system - the integrity of the rule of law - is at once destroyed if it becomes possible for officials, by arbitrary decisions made not in public court rooms but in the private offices of officialdom, without hearing the parties, without taking evidence, free from all obedience to settled legal principles, and subject to no appeal, effectively to overrule the Courts and deprive a Canadian citizen of a right he has established by immemorial method of a trial at law.
Bachand v Dupuis, [1946] D.L.R. 641