Bowling tournament rule prohibiting mechanical devices discriminated against child with cerebral palsy using ramp assist.
The complainant, an eleven-year-old girl with cerebral palsy, used a ramp assist to bowl.
She qualified for a youth bowling tournament but was disqualified because the rules prohibited the use of mechanical devices to deliver the ball.
The Board of Inquiry found that the rule had a disproportionately damaging impact on physically disabled persons and that the ramp assist did not give the complainant an unfair competitive advantage.
The Board concluded that the complainant was denied equal treatment with respect to services because of her handicap.
The respondents were ordered to allow her to participate in competitive tournaments, to develop a rule accommodating young bowlers with hand or arm disabilities, and to pay $2,000 in damages for mental anguish.
Tammy McLeod and next friend Brenda McLeod v. Youth Bowling Council of Ontario et al., 1988 CanLII 8873
