Dr. Hooper

The applicant father sought primary care and sole decision-making responsibility for his two children, who had not seen him in over a year due to the respondent mother's interference.

The mother alleged the children were profoundly disabled and terrified of the father due to past family violence.

The court found that the mother was consciously or unconsciously alienating the children from the father, causing their mental health to deteriorate and creating a resist-refuse dynamic.

The court ordered a custody reversal, transferring primary residence and sole decision-making to the father, with a 30-day period of no contact with the mother to allow for intensive reunification therapy.

The court also ordered the daughter's surname to be hyphenated to include the father's surname.

The worker, a garden centre manager, claimed initial entitlement for a right eye retinal detachment after a bag of mulch tore and soil fell into their eye.

The worker later amended the accident history to claim the 40-pound bag also struck their face.

The Appeals Resolution Officer rejected the revised history as inconsistent with contemporaneous reporting.

Relying on a medical consultant's opinion that soil entering the eye is not a compatible mechanism for retinal detachment, the ARO found the injury was not work-related.

The appeal was denied.