LAT – Tribunal Watch Ontario

December 01, 2025

Success rate for injured applicants at Licence Appeal Tribunal continues to plummet

As a new associate chair with significant political connections is poised to take over, the Licence Appeal Tribunal (LAT) is faced with criticism over the plummeting success rate for people injured in auto accidents who are appealing decisions by insurance companies – a success rate that has dropped precipitously to only 8 per cent. The […]

February 14, 2025

Executive Summary for Statement of Concern – Under the Ford Government: Justice Delayed and Denied at Tribunals Ontario

This is an executive summary of our Statement of Concern about Tribunals Ontario. In December 2024, Tribunals Ontario released its much-delayed Annual Report for 2023/24, and despite some self-congratulatory messaging, the data inside, and on the Tribunals Ontario website, demonstrates that there are serious deficits in the quality, accessibility and timeliness of justice at three […]

February 13, 2025

Statement of Concern – Under the Ford Government: Justice Delayed and Denied at the Landlord and Tenant Board, the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario and the Licence Appeal Tribunal

In December 2024, Tribunals Ontario released its much-delayed Annual Report for 2023/24, and despite self-congratulatory messaging, the data inside demonstrates that there are serious deficits in the quality, accessibility and timeliness of justice at three of its busiest tribunals – the Landlord and Tenant Board (LTB), the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario (HRTO) and the […]

January 23, 2025

Auto Accident Benefits Adjudication: Backlog reduction but troubling trends

In its latest annual report, Tribunals Ontario is proclaiming the end of the backlog at the Licence Appeal Tribunal (LAT). The LAT deals with a wide range of issues, but the vast majority of its applications – more than 96 per cent in 2023-24 – are to its Automobile Accident Benefits Service (AABS), which resolves […]

December 14, 2022

Justice Denied: The Access to Justice Crisis at Tribunals Ontario

The crisis continues in some of Ontario’s most important adjudicative tribunals. Tribunals Ontario posted its 2021/22 Annual Report on its website in September 2022, documenting the state of its 14 tribunals as of March 31, 2022, the end of its fiscal year. This latest Annual Report demonstrates that several key Ontario adjudicative tribunals are failing […]

March 10, 2022

Access to Justice in Crisis: Tribunals Ontario in 2022

Imagine if you will: If you applied to Tribunals Ontario for a remedy in any of these situations, you can now expect to wait months or even years for a hearing and final decision. In many cases, you will wait months for your tribunal to take even basic preliminary steps to move your application forward. […]