Toiling in semi-obscurity, the low-profile Health Services Appeal and Review Board (HSARB) seems to have one major mission: dismissing appeals from decisions of OHIP, the Ontario Health Insurance Plan. HSARB is a tribunal with a small caseload but with a stunning uniformity of decisions. The precise current caseload is difficult to determine because HSARB and […]

The final version of new rules of practice for two health tribunals was posted on the tribunals’ website, while a so-called consultation this summer with stakeholders was still ongoing, raising suspicion that the consultation was a sham. The discovery was made by Amy Wah, a longtime lawyer with the HIV & AIDS Legal Clinic Ontario, […]