BC Human Rights Tribunal

The Tribunal has launched a survey on its Case Path Process and other process options. Please participate to help the Tribunal improve its process. This survey will be open until April 14, 2025.

What is the Backlog? Backlogs accumulate when a Tribunal has more complaints than it has capacity to process. The number of new complaints filed with the Tribunal spiked in the 2020/21 fiscal year, and those numbers have remained more than double the historic average since. Tribunal resources did not keep pace with the increased demand.…

Interested Vendors are invited to submit a Response to this RFQ for the opportunity to be evaluated for eligibility to be added to the BC Human Rights Tribunal’s list of Qualified Suppliers to provide mediation services.

Regular hours: Monday to Friday, 8:30 AM – 4:30 PM Holiday Hours A secure drop box is located outside the door under the Tribunal sign if you wish to drop off documents on the 27th or 31st of December during business hours.

Today, the Tribunal issued a revised Accommodation Policy and Form 10 – Accommodation Request, including to clarify when to use a Form 10. The Tribunal changed one aspect of its Mediation Policy regarding support persons. The Tribunal issued its Participant Access to Complaint Record Policy and a new form under the new policy: The Tribunal…

BCHRT’s Annual Report 2023-2024 is now available to the public. View all reports

The Tribunal has amended the Case Path Pilot Practice Direction to clarify that the Tribunal reviews a complaint file for the purpose of case path selection after the deadline for document disclosure, rather than after the parties have completed document disclosure.

The Tribunal issued its Freedom of Information Request Policy.

The Tribunal has begun scheduling hearings after a temporary pause related to its backlog strategy. The Tribunal is scheduling hearings in the order of the date the complaint was filed, from oldest to newest. The Tribunal will contact parties in respect of scheduling as their case reaches the top of the queue. We are currently…

The Tribunal is pleased to report progress under its Backlog Strategy. As at May 1, the Tribunal has 524 open Covid-related cases in its inventory, down from 946 at the beginning of the backlog project. In total, the Tribunal has now closed roughly 68% of its Covid-related cases.  The Tribunal has also made progress in working…