Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario are saddling some of the province’s most vulnerable people with mounting delays as they seek relief for alleged discrimination or harassment, legal experts and advocates warn.A high number of vacancies combined with increased political intervention in selecting and retaining tribunal staff are undermining the human rights system as it faces a growing backlog of cases due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the experts say.
Ontario has failed to follow segregation rules, human rights commission says The tribunal was slow to adopt videoconferencing for hearings after health measures imposed in March prevented in-person proceedings, said Roberto Henriquez, a human rights lawyer in Hamilton.It cancelled many scheduled.