Christina Hall and Adrian Miedema discuss the Ontario Human Rights Tribunal's approach to preliminary objections under the new system in "Employers Favoured in Tribunal's Approach to Preliminary Objections", Legal Alert, published by Carswell.

In the Employment Law article, "Proposed overhaul of Ontario Human Rights system", (see Legal Alert, July 2006, Volume 25, Number 4), the proposed amendments to the Ontario Human Rights Code (the "Code") contained in Bill 107. At the core of these proposed amendments was a plan to turn the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario into a "direct access" system in which all human rights complaints would be filed directly with the Tribunal. The gatekeeper role historically performed by the Ontario Human Rights Commission (the "Commission") in deciding whether cases should be referred to the Tribunal would be eliminated. 

 

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