In her annual report, Schools Adjudicator Elizabeth Passmore argued that complains which held «no connection in terms of seeking a place for their child» is «not good
use of an adjudicator's time and public money».
Not exact matches
For all their official production measurements, OPEC
uses an average
of estimates from six «secondary sources», namely the International Energy Agency (IEA), the oil - pricing agencies Platts and Argus, the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA), the oil consultancy Cambridge Energy Research Associates (CERA) and the industry newsletter Petroleum Intelligence Weekly, as an impartial
adjudicator as to whether their output quotas and production cuts are being met, to resolve any potential disputes that could arise if each member reported their own figures.
If the
adjudicator has not asked about any accommodation needs
of the parties, the opening statement can be
used to alert the
adjudicator to any accommodations that might be needed in the hearing, such as witness availability and any time constraints.
One variation
used by some tribunals is the u-shaped table, where the parties sit across from each other, with the
adjudicator at the bottom
of the «U».
Self - represented applicants at the Human Rights Tribunal
of Ontario have raised the issue
of bias directly or indirectly through expressed concerns about lawyers on the Tribunal's practice advisory committee appearing for respondents: see Guilmoutdinov v. Ontario College
of Teachers (2009 HRTO 2130), for example, where the
adjudicator noted that advisory committees were frequently
used by tribunals to promote responsiveness to the communities they serve and concluded that membership on the committee did not create a reasonable apprehension
of bias.
A mediator is typically not
used as an
adjudicator to make the decisions on behalf
of the parties, but rather
used to facilitate the parties» communications in order for the parties to make decisions about the terms
of their agreement.
... The
Adjudicator's
use of allegory and frank opinion regarding the Applicant's chances
of success were clearly directed at assisting the Applicant to understand that a realistic risk existed in taking the complaint to hearing.
For the individuals exercising judicial rights - determining functions as members
of judicial tribunals, I
use the traditional label: «
adjudicator.»
It may be that the professional institutions and the Academy
of Experts could take the lead by calling in redacted reports from
Adjudicators in order to test the quality
of reports and build confidence in the
use of Experts within adjudication proceedings.
In another discussion, a bencher colleague raised the same issue worrying that the nature
of discipline adjudication could suffer by the
use of those skilled as
adjudicators rather than by those elected by, knowledgeable about, and supportive
of, the profession.
Another issue raised in Convocation was about increasing
use of appointed non-bencher
adjudicators.
In my last post, Employers Responsible for Protecting Employees from Harassment on Twitter, I looked at a recent labour award, Toronto Transit Commission and ATU, Local 113 (
Use of Social Media), Re, 2016 CarswellOnt 10550 (ON Arb), in which a labour
adjudicator held that the employer had failed to protect its employees from online harassment.
The
use of social media by
adjudicators and judges continues to attract attention, but there has been little movement in defining what is appropriate activity.
While not binding on human rights
adjudicators, arbitral jurisprudence can raise interesting employment issues and has been
used by the OHRC to inform a broad and purposive interpretation
of the Code.
Mr. Groia's appeal also raises the important issue
of how law society disciplinary panels may
use comments about a lawyer's conduct made by an
adjudicator in a prior proceeding.
Since MLS is a generic term everywhere but Canada, the
adjudicator decided «we're not going to let a Canadian trademark affect the global
use of MLS,» Harrington says.
It sounds like the
adjudicators on the Lanflord and Tenant Board are a chosen bunch
of socialist leaning types who
use every in - house provided escape loophole to side with tenants in general against those evil profit - seeking landlords.