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Tribunal's refusal to grant landlord an adjournment to obtain police records constituted a denial of procedural fairness.
The appellant landlord appealed a decision of the Ontario Rental Housing Tribunal that found he had illegally locked out the respondent tenants and failed to accommodate a tenant's disability.
The landlord argued he was denied procedural fairness because the Tribunal waived the 10-day notice requirement and refused his request for an adjournment to obtain police records.
The Divisional Court allowed the appeal, finding that the Tribunal's refusal to grant an adjournment denied the landlord a meaningful opportunity to be heard and constituted a fundamental error in law.
The matter was remitted to the Tribunal for a new hearing.
Income assistance termination for failure to provide information applies to the entire benefit unit including dependants.
The appellant's income assistance was terminated after she failed to provide required information regarding changes in her circumstances, as required by the Ontario Works Act and its regulations.
She appealed, arguing that her non-compliance should only result in the termination of her own assistance, not that of her dependant daughter.
The Court of Appeal dismissed the appeal, holding that the failure to provide core financial information precludes the administrator from calculating assistance, thereby rendering the dependant's exemption inapplicable.
