{"id":221,"date":"2010-02-17T15:02:54","date_gmt":"2010-02-17T23:02:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/schenklaw.ca\/?p=221"},"modified":"2010-02-17T15:03:07","modified_gmt":"2010-02-17T23:03:07","slug":"yes-you-can-complain-to-the-human-rights-tribunal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/schenklaw.ca\/?p=221","title":{"rendered":"Yes You Can Complain to The Human Rights Tribunal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A very common issue that arises in administrative law: more than one body can hear,  rule and decide on a matter. The follow up issue  arises: which body should run that process. Further, once you have an answer from one body, does that preclude another body from taking a look at the matter all over again. The labour lawyers worked this one out with <a href=\"http:\/\/csc.lexum.umontreal.ca\/en\/1995\/1995scr2-929\/1995scr2-929.html\"><em>Weber<\/em><\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.opseu.org\/legal\/parrysounddecisionfinal.pdf\">Parry Sound<\/a> several years ago.<\/p>\n<p>We now have the latest word on this complicated issue from the BC Court of Appeal in the context of human rights adjudication and workers compensation disability reviews in<em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.courts.gov.bc.ca\/jdb-txt\/CA\/10\/00\/2010BCCA0077.htm\"> Workers\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 Compensation Board v. British Columbia (Human Rights Tribunal)<\/a><\/em> , 2010 BCCA 77.<\/p>\n<p>Briefly, and I emphasize briefly, as this is a very complicated series of arguments that underlie the decision, the human rights tribunal does get to hear a matter despite the fact that the matter has been canvassed by another tribunal.  Res judicata, estoppels, and abuse of process arguments don&#8217;t prevent the tribunal from taking a look at the matter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A very common issue that arises in administrative law: more than one body can hear, rule and decide on a matter. The follow up issue arises: which body should run that process. Further, once you have an answer from one body, does that preclude another body from taking a look at the matter all over [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-employment-law","category-human-rights-law","category-labour-law"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/schenklaw.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/schenklaw.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/schenklaw.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/schenklaw.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/schenklaw.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/schenklaw.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/schenklaw.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/schenklaw.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/schenklaw.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}