What is the authority of the BC Human Rights Tribunal to defer a complaint?
British Columbia, Canada
The following excerpt is from Williams v. Interior Health Authority and others, 2019 BCHRT 56 (CanLII):
The Tribunal’s authority to defer a complaint arises out of a legislative intent that its resources should not be expended if it would result in needless duplication of the other proceeding’s adjudicative resources: Young v. Coast Mountain Bus Company, 2003 BCHRT 28 [Young] at para. 21.
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