Practice Directions
The Pre-Hearing Appeal Process
- 1. How to Start an Appeal at the WSIAT
- 2. Appeals Involving Deceased Workers
- 3. Consent for the WSIAT to Release a Worker's Information
- 4. How to Prepare an Appeal at the WSIAT
- 5. Hearing Formats
- 6. Mediation - 2-Party Appeals
- 7. Alternative Dispute Resolution - 1-Party Appeals
- 8. Disclosure
- 9. Evidence
- 10. Surveillance Evidence
- 11. Expert Evidence
- 12. Summonses and Production of Documents
- 13. Medical Information Requested By the WSIAT
- 14. Pre-Hearing Conferences
- 15. Time Extension Applications
- 16. Access to Workers’ Information When the Issue in Dispute is at the Workplace Safety and Insurance Board (WSIB)
- 17. Right to Sue Applications
The Hearing
- 18. Notice of Hearing and Failure to Attend
- 19. Hearing Assignments
- 20. Interpreters
- 21. Who May Attend a Hearing
- 22. Downside Risk
- 23. Adjournments and Withdrawals
- 24. Inactive Appeals
Post-Hearing
Representatives
- 28. Representatives
- 29. WSIAT Code of Conduct for Representatives
- 30. Representatives’ Fees and Costs
Tribunal General
- 31. Powers of Practice and Procedure
- 32. Procedure When Raising a Human Rights or Charter Question
- 33. Role of the Vice-Chair Registrar at the WSIAT
- 34. Role of the Tribunal Counsel Office at the WSIAT