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The British Columbia Human Rights Tribunal is a quasi-judicial human rights body in British Columbia, Canada. It was established under British Columbia's Human Rights Code. It is responsible for "accepting, screening, mediating and adjudicating human rights complaints." [1]
The British Columbia Human Rights Tribunal is the administrative, quasi-judicial tribunal tasked with hearing complaints that the Code has been violated. It has the power to grant damages and specific performance to remedy discriminatory acts.
The Human Rights Tribunal found that the Superintendent directly discriminated and ordered a reassessment of his (Grismer's) visual abilities. A judge of the Supreme Court of British Columbia dismissed the Superintendent's petition for judicial review but the Court of Appeal set aside that decision.
Canadian Human Rights Tribunal: human rights: An independent, quasi-judicial tribunal that inquires into allegations of prohibited discrimination under the Canadian Human Rights Act. Canadian International Trade Tribunal: trade: The CITT adjudicates "trade remedy, customs, excise tax, and federal procurement cases."
Nixon rejected these offers and in 2000 the case went to the British Columbia Human Rights Tribunal. Nixon won the Human Rights Tribunal on the grounds that the society discriminated against her and was awarded $7,500 for injury of self-respect and dignity. [7] Vancouver Rape Relief Society brought the Tribunal’s decision for judicial review ...
The Court found in favour of Blencoe and ordered the charges against him to be stayed. The Court held that the delay stigmatized him and caused undue harm to him and his family, which violated his rights under section 7 of the Charter. The issues appealed to the Supreme Court were: Whether the delay violated Blencoe's section 7 rights.
If a human rights claim goes to adjudication, it may be in front of a specialised human rights tribunal, such as the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal for federal claims, or a provincial human rights tribunal for claims under provincial law. In one province, Saskatchewan, there is no human rights tribunal and claims are adjudicated directly by the ...
The tribunal found in Nixon's favour and issued an award of $7,500. Vancouver Rape Relief appealed this decision to the Supreme Court of British Columbia . In 2005 the court repealed the tribunal's verdict, ruling that the shelter is a group protected by section 41 of the B.C. Human Rights Code , [ 11 ] which offers an exemption to certain ...