The complainant brought a motion challenging the jurisdiction of a newly assigned adjudicator to hear the human rights complaint, arguing that the original adjudicator was seized of the matter.
The Board of Inquiry held that section 35(8) of the Human Rights Code grants the Chair broad authority to reassign panels for any reason, including scheduling and workload demands, and that the parties were not legally entitled to prior notice of the reassignment.
The motion was dismissed and the hearing was ordered to proceed.
