Since June 2018, the Ford Government has emasculated the tribunals within the Tribunals Ontario structure. Here’s the story.
The Emasculation of Tribunals Ontario Cases in point and a Projection Read More »
Introduction The author’s March 10, 2017, post in this website described the highlights and implications of the Court of Appeal decision in Castrillo, the Fink & Bornstein class action against Ontario’s WSIB. The class action claims that the Board was
WSIB and Some of the Evidence it Will Have to Confront in Castrillo Read More »
THE PETITION On November 7, 2016, three Toronto workers’ compensation legal clinics (IWC, IAVGO, WHSLC), workers’ compensation lawyer, Gary Newhouse, and this author, formally petitioned the Ontario Ombudsman to investigate the WSIB’s systemic denial of chronic mental stress injury claims. The
The UCL empirical study of tribunal adjudication referred to in the previous post which shows that disability claims are 2.5 times more likely to be successful if the tribunal’s decision follows an oral hearing, also examined why that might be
You may have heard that the Ontario’s Auditor General has reported at length on disastrous delays in OIC appointments to tribunals, boards and agencies – another indicator on a long list of indicators of this government’s disrespect and neglect of