The Ontario Divisional Court has dismantled a major pillar of the Human Rights Tribunal’s unfair drive to reduce its backlog by dismissing most claims without a hearing. In Bokhari v. Top Medical Transportation Services, released on February 20, the Court overturned a Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario (HRTO) decision dismissing a claim without a hearing, […]

A paper by Emily Shepard published in the most recent issue of the Canadian Journal of Administrative Law & Practice provides a detailed analysis of the HRTO’s increasing use of abandonment as the basis for dismissing thousands of applications without a hearing. This analysis confirms the concerns Tribunal Watch has expressed for several years about […]

Quick Summary Ontario’s human rights system has become a nightmare for people who seek redress for alleged discrimination, a new analysis by the independent group Tribunal Watch Ontario shows. The latest statistics from the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario (HRTO) show that the tribunal has become the place where human rights claims go to die. […]

On October 25th, the HRTO posted notice on its website that it is “streamlining its processes to facilitate fair, just and expeditious resolutions of the matters before it and reduce delays.” It is doing so by effecting a number of changes to its Rules of Procedure and, at a later date, will be introducing a […]

The Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario (HRTO) continues to fail Ontarians badly. According to Tribunals Ontario’s most recent Annual Report, the HRTO backlog grew by another 500 applications over the 12-month period covered by the report, despite the fact that it received the lowest number of new applications since 2015/16. The HRTO’s unresolved caseload rose […]