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BC HRT fines complainant $3500

Another travesty of justice courtesy of the BC Human Rights Tribunal.

A company was forced to spend $35,000 in legal fees before the complainant dropped her case, but the complainant is ordered to repay only $3500.

A woman who filed a complaint with the B.C. Human Rights Tribunal alleging sexual harassment by an employer has been ordered to pay the company $3,500 for dropping her complaint one day before a hearing.
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A lawyer for Olympic claimed preparing the case cost more than $35,000 and wanted more than $5,000 in damages.

[Tribunal member] Ms. [Lindsay] Lyster ruled $3,500 is sufficient to signal the tribunal’s condemnation of Ms. Samuda’s conduct.

If it’s “sufficient” for the tribunal, it only shows the BC HRT has very low standards. But we already knew that.

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3 Responses to “BC HRT fines complainant $3500”

  1. Steve L.- says:
    21 February 2009 at 03:25 PM

    The BC HRC Act

    Section 35 Remedies 37 (1) If the member or panel designated to hear a complaint determines that the complaint is not justified, the member or panel must dismiss the complaint.

    (4) The member or panel may award costs
    (a) against a party to a complaint who has engaged in improper conduct during the course of the complaint

    Nothing anywhere on quantifing costs to be recovered, just may
    Oh and this brilliant balance of law..

    Enforcement of remedies 39 (2) An order filed under subsection (1) has the same force and effect, and all proceedings may be taken on it, as if it were a judgment of the Supreme Court.

    So the folks at HRC have the same powers as the Supreme Court, scary!

  2. Scott Gilbreath says:
    21 February 2009 at 09:20 PM

    Thanks, Steve. I didn’t know that BC HRT decisions are to be viewed as if they’re Supreme Court judgments. Scary indeed.

  3. Steynian 327 « Free Canuckistan! says:
    23 February 2009 at 01:58 PM

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