Name that Administrative Tribunal
This administrative tribunal handles issues like rent increases, evictions, maintenance problems, and lease violations.
What is the Landlord & Tenant Board
This branch of government that administrative tribunals fall under, rather than the judicial branch.
What is the executive branch.
The ability of citizens to obtain, process, and understand bureaucratic information and services necessary for interacting effectively with public organizations.
What is Administrative Literacy.
This word is used to describe the increasing connections between economies, cultures and populations driven by the exchange of goods, services, capital and information across borders.
What is Globalization.
This is the main purpose of human rights damages under the Ontario Human Rights Code.
What is to compensate for harm to dignity, feelings, and self-respect.
The members of these tribunals are experts in human rights and administrative law.
What are human rights tribunals
Unlike courts, the independence of these bodies is not constitutionally secured, and is determined by the legislatures or Parliament.
What are administrative tribunals.
This public service role involves interacting directly with citizens and has discretion in implementing policies.
What are Street-Level Bureaucrats (SLBs)
These are the 3 main principles that global administrative law draws upon.
Transparency, participation, and review.
This principle ensures that damages are neither too low to trivialize violations nor too high to seem punitive.
What is the principle of fairness and proportionality.
This tribunal may be involved in resolving workplace disputes between employers, employees, and unions.
What is a Labour Relations Board
This term describes the function of some ATs that act in a manner similar to a court while remaining part of the executive branch.
What is "quasi-judicial".
These are the three essential phases of citizen-state interactions in Administrative Literacy.
What is collecting and assessing information, exchanging information, and deriving personal decisions.
This type of accountability requires decisions to be justified based on rules.
What is legal accountability.
This Ontario forum has historically awarded the highest damages for human rights claims.
What is the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario (HRTO).
These boards are funded by employer premiums.
What are Workers' Compensation Boards
This is the term used to describe the process by which a court reviews the decision of an administrative tribunal.
What is judicial review.
This type of administrative literacy involves understanding bureaucratic forms and official letters.
What is Functional Literacy.
And this type of accountability can be arbitrary and based on elections or political negotiations.
What is political accountability.
This change in 2008 gave claimants more options for pursuing human rights claims in Ontario.
What is overlapping jurisdictions.
This tribunal is Canada’s largest independent tribunal.
What is the Immigration and Refugee Board
This principle requires that both sides of a dispute must be heard before a decision can be made, and translates to "hear the other side".
What is audi alteram partem.
These three factors are found to influence how bureaucrats perceive and treat citizens.
What are Ethnicity, Gender, and Cultural Background.
Grant & Keohane describe these as the 7 discrete accountability mechanisms that actually operate in world politics on the basis of which improved practices of accountability could be built.
What are the Hierarchical, Supervisory, Fiscal, Legal, Market, Peer and Public reputational accountability mechanisms.
These are the two types of factors considered when assessing human rights damages.
What is objective factors (severity and frequency of discrimination) and subjective factors (emotional impact on the claimant).