The Court declined the respondents’ application to convert Workers’ Compensation Board proceedings to a court action but permitted their request to challenge WCB orders as the respondents faced the possibility of imprisonment

22. October 2013 0
Administrative law – Decisions of administrative tribunals – Workers Compensation Boards – Tribunal orders – Contempt – Judicial review – Collateral attack – Compliance with legislation – Evidence British Columbia (Workers’ Compensation Board) v. Skylite Building Maintenance Ltd., [2013] B.C.J. No. 1988, 2013 BCSC 1666, British Columbia Supreme Court, September 10, 2013, G. Funt J. ...

A lawyer (“Sternberg”) was successful in his application for judicial review of a decision of the Ontario Racing Commission (the “Commission”) in which it ordered that Sternberg be prohibited from appearing as counsel before the Commission where the Court held that the hearing before the Commission was conducted in such a way as to raise a reasonable apprehension of bias towards Sternberg

25. November 2008 0
Administrative law – Decisions of administrative tribunals – Racing Commission – Barristers and solicitors – Professional misconduct – Judicial review – Hearings – Conduct of hearings – Contempt – Procedural requirements and fairness – Bias – Reasonable apprehension of bias – test – Compliance with legislation – Jurisdiction of tribunal Sternberg v. Ontario (Racing Commission), ...

The Ontario Labour Relations Board did not err in consolidating and hearing together the reprisal complaint of the Respondent against his former employer at the same time as the employer’s motion for contempt. The Respondent was not denied a fair hearing as a result of both matters being heard together.

26. April 2005 0
Administrative law – Decisions of administrative tribunals – Labour and employment boards – Jurisdiction – Hearings – Consolidation – Contempt – Judicial review – Procedural requirements and fairness – Evidence McNaught v. Toronto Transit Commission, [2005] O.J. No. 224, Ontario Court of Appeal, January 27, 2005, J.M. Simmons, E.E. Gillese JJ.A. and P.C. Hennessy J. (ad hoc) ...