Sentences with phrase «as the human rights tribunal»

Employees must also be sure to inform their employer of any disabilities requiring accommodation, as human rights tribunal will not expect the employer to have accommodated an employee if they didn't know that the employee was disabled.

tribunals could incorporate an investigative function through an independent agency, as human rights tribunals do with human rights commissions.»

Not exact matches

As stated above, the government will leave it up to courts, tribunals, and commissions, such as the specifically mentioned Ontario Human Rights Commission, to define how the law is enforceAs stated above, the government will leave it up to courts, tribunals, and commissions, such as the specifically mentioned Ontario Human Rights Commission, to define how the law is enforceas the specifically mentioned Ontario Human Rights Commission, to define how the law is enforced.

Thus, for example, in the present case the president of the Queen's Bench Division observed: «Courts and Tribunals acting judicially are generally required to give reasons for their decisions, and further normally required to publish them for the proper public administration of justice so as to comply with Article 6 of the European Convention on Human Rights.»

To the extent that he acts on behalf of strata property managers and numerous strata corporations, he provides representation not just as litigation counsel appearing at the superior Courts of British Columbia, at arbitration, mediation and administrative tribunals such as the Human Rights Tribunal, Employment Standards and City Variance hearings, but also as legal advisor in the strata and real estate regulatory fields as well as all other areas of the law.

Otherwise, human rights tribunals and the courts will have to define that phase on an ad hoc basis as specific cases come before them, with the corresponding uncertainty, expense and delay of litigation.

Terra acts as counsel in proceedings before the courts, arbitrators, labour boards, and human rights tribunals.

Human rights tribunals also define and prohibit harassment, except that it must be based on specific personal characteristics, such as gender, age, race, colour or religious beliefs.

In brief, the approach conceives of investment treaty arbitration as a form of public law, and calls for tribunals to draw on comparative domestic constitutional and administrative law, as well as other regimes of international public law such as WTO law and human rights law, to give content to the often vaguely - worded standards of typical investment treaties.

As well, a line of authorities suggests that there is a higher standard of proof in establishing a prima facie case of discrimination in human rights tribunal hearings: SMS Equipment Inc v Communications, Energy and Paperworkers Union, Local 707, 2015 ABQB 162 at para. 54.

Ryan represents a wide range of unions in grievance arbitrations, and in matters before the Ontario Labour Relations Board, the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario, the Grievance Settlement Board, as well as other administrative tribunals.

The Montreal native and Companion of the Order of Canada was previously the United Nations high commissioner for human rights as well as the chief prosecutor for the International Criminal Tribunals for the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda.

Some Tribunals, such as the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario, have made affirmation the default approach and ask witnesses to promise to tell the truth and to acknowledge that intentionally breaking that promise would be a breach of the law.

And yes, the tribunal judged section 13 unconstitutional as well as section 54 (impose hefty fines) of the Canadian Human Rights Act, both are being equally challenged.

Harassment, as a civil wrong, had developed within the administrative structure of human rights tribunals and grievance processes under collective agreements but there was no generally recognized common law «tort» of harassment.

For example, the BC Court of Appeal found that while a disciplinary panel of the BC Veterinary Medical Association (now the College of Veterinarians of BC) had jurisdiction to address asserted racial discrimination by the panel as a matter of bias, the tribunal could decline to address that issue as it was already before the Human Rights Tribunal.

Gavin has effectively represented clients in every level of court in British Columbia and all British Columbia workplace administrative tribunals, as well as the federal Human Right's Tribunal and Canada Labour Relations Board.

Thus the Supreme Court held that the policy of «deport first; appeal later» is a violation of human rights as an appeal against a deportation order by reference to a claim in respect of private and family life under ECHR, art 8 should be effective, and this means there must be an opportunity for appellants to give live evidence to assist the tribunal.

Keeping commissions intact as an advocate for human rights, but removing the commission's role as a gatekeeper and allowing complainants direct access to the tribunal.

Human rights tribunals also define and prohibit harassment, except that it must be based on specific personal characteristics, such as gender, age, race, color or religious beliefs.

Julie provides her clients with ongoing strategic advice to help manage workplace absence and disability accommodation, and skillful representation in administrative tribunals, including human rights, Workers Compensation and labour arbitration proceedings, as well as civil proceedings, including wrongful and constructive dismissal claims.

Mark was instructed on behalf of the Equality and Human Rights Commission which intervened in respect of a judicial review by UNISON of employment tribunal fees that were acting as a barrier to tens of thousands of potentially meritous challenges each year.

Phil has successfully appeared before the Ontario Superior Court of Justice and judicial reviews before the Divisional Court as counsel as well as various Tribunals including the Ontario Labour Relations Board and the Human Rights Tribunal.

We have acted as counsel in cases before all major international courts and tribunals, including the International Court of Justice, the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea, the European Court of Justice, the European Court of Human Rights, and many different kinds of specialised courts, tribunals and commissions.

This is mostly symbolic considering discrimination against transgender individuals has been jurisprudentially outlawed by human rights tribunal judges in Canada who have interpreted discrimination against transgender people as falling under the statutorily proscribed ground of «sex».

David has appeared as counsel at the Supreme Court of Canada, the Federal Court, all levels of court in Ontario, in commercial arbitrations and before various administrative tribunals, including the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario and the Ontario Licence Appeal Tribunal.

After the former Chief Commissioner of the Alberta Human Rights Commission upheld the Director's dismissal of Mr. Caron's complaint as too trivial to justify a public tribunal hearing, Mr. Caron filed a judicial review application seeking to quash the Commissioner's decision.

Historically, in Canadian jurisdictions like Alberta where language is not a protected ground in human rights legislation, tribunals and courts have protected language vicariously through other grounds such as ancestry or place of origin.

Tribunals and human rights: As with Charter rights, professional regulatory authorities are also responsible for understanding human rights, respecting them, and balancing them with statutory objectives.

He has always acted as a Board of Inquiry under the Ontario Human Rights Code and the Police Services Act and as co-chair of the University of Toronto Tribunal and a counseled to a number of administrative tribunals.

Chris has argued matters before the Superior and Divisional Court, and has appeared as counsel before a number of administrative tribunals and boards including the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario, the Landlord and Tenant Board, the Ministry of Labour, the Health Professions Appeal and Review Board, the Information and Privacy Commissioner of Ontario, the Office of the Review Tribunal and the Pension Appeals Board (now known as the Social Security Tribunal).

We provide a broad range of professional legal services in matters before the BC, Alberta and Federal courts, as well as before a variety of administrative tribunals, including labour relations boards, human rights tribunals, and arbitration boards.

The first two, a decision - making tribunal and a separate investigative commission, would be organized in much the same manner and with much the same interrelationships as exist between human rights tribunals and human rights commissions.

Jonquille has appeared as co-counsel and lead counsel before various tribunals and courts, including the Ontario Superior Court, the Federal Court, the Ontario Human Rights Tribunal, the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal, and the Workplace Safety and Insurance Board.

We provide advice, assistance and representation to clients who self - identify as Indigenous and who can not afford a lawyer, on topics ranging from: criminal matters, family law matters, human rights complaints, to Indian Status applications and hearings before certain administrative tribunals.

He maintains that «all of the invective and hyperbole about anti-semitism is really a smokescreen for imposing an officially sanctioned religious belief on society as a whole which is not the function of Courts or Human Rights Tribunals in a free society».

It is clear that human rights tribunals can not be effective if they are precluded from granting systemic remedies, especially as Canada faces more difficult and complex discrimination that is entrenched in institutional practices.

Save where the constitutional validity of a law is frontally attacked, in which case the administrative tribunal's conclusions will be subject to correctness review, as in Saskatchewan (Human Rights Commission) v Whatcott [2013] 1 SCR 467.

As a result, while the law is unclear as to when the human rights tribunal will decline to address a discriminatory process where a registrant has voluntarily agreed to it, the cases establish that a process will not be insulated from a human rights violation where the voluntary nature of an undertaking can be impugned through a power imbalance, or a mistake of facAs a result, while the law is unclear as to when the human rights tribunal will decline to address a discriminatory process where a registrant has voluntarily agreed to it, the cases establish that a process will not be insulated from a human rights violation where the voluntary nature of an undertaking can be impugned through a power imbalance, or a mistake of facas to when the human rights tribunal will decline to address a discriminatory process where a registrant has voluntarily agreed to it, the cases establish that a process will not be insulated from a human rights violation where the voluntary nature of an undertaking can be impugned through a power imbalance, or a mistake of fact.

Mark has represented clients before both the Provincial and Supreme Court of British Columbia, and also regularly assists employers with a wide range of other matters, including the preparation of employment contracts and employment policies as well as dispute resolution before labour, employment, human rights, and other administrative tribunals.

On December 16, 2005, the Alberta Human Rights Panel (now the tribunal) found that Walsh was indeed discriminated against based on her gender, contrary to the equal pay and terms of conditions of employment provisions of sections six and seven of the Human Rights, Citizenship and Multiculturalism Act (now referred to as the Alberta Human Rights Act).

Typically, B.C. tribunals have reflected an expertise such as labor relations, employment standards, and human rights.

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Many say that tribunals have consistently upheld human rights legislation as a valid restriction on our fundamental freedoms, meaning human rights override fundamental freedoms.

We appear before administrative tribunals on matters such as human rights, occupational health and safety, rights and interest arbitrations, labour board issues and workers» compensation.

Today, however, many of the existing specialised international tribunals have been created in the context of a particular regime, such as one which promotes, for example, the liberalisation of international trade rules, the protection of human rights and fundamental freedoms, or the economic integration of a regional organisation.