Enforcing Human Rights in Ontario

Enforcing Human Rights in Ontario is the first comprehensive guide to how Ontario’s new human rights system works. Co-authored by Mary Cornish, Fay Faraday and Jo-Anne Pickel, the book is written in an accessible format applicable to everyone, including individuals in the public and private sectors, those who are responsible for ensuring their organizations comply with human rights obligations and those who are seeking to secure human rights protections.

The book includes:

• coverage of the wide-ranging changes from the old to the new system - particularly around the roles of the:
  • Human Rights Commission
  • Human Rights Tribunal
  • the new Human Rights Legal Support Center
  • the courts
• practical information and principled analysis to help those representing complainants, respondents, interveners and the Commission and to help lay persons navigate the new enforcement system
• the new role of the courts in enforcing human rights
• the interaction between the Human Rights Tribunal and other administrative tribunals with concurrent jurisdiction

Practical tools in the appendices make navigating the system easier and include:

• copies of the legislation and regulations
• a flow chart of the application process
• tribunal forms
• contact information for the Commission, Tribunal and Legal Support Center
• a list of the Commission's human rights guidelines and policies on the interpretation of the rights in Part I of the Code
• and more.

Enforcing Human Rights in Ontario is published by Canada Law Book.