Administrative Design

Administrative Design and the Human Rights Process in Ontario:
Can We Do This Better?

Faculty of Law, University of Toronto
January 14, 2005

All materials are Word documents unless otherwise noted

Materials for Workshop

• Background information, agenda for roundtable, and selected bibliography (Powerpoint)
• Confirmed participants, contact information and short biographies

Bibliography and Supplemental Materials

• November 1995 Brief of the Coalition for Reform of the Human Rights Commission, "Dysfunction in the Human Rights Complaints System"
• Submission to Ontario Human Rights Code Review Task Force (PDF)
• Joanna Birenbaum and Bruce Porter, Screening Rights: The Denial of the Right to Adjudication in the Canadian Human Rights Act and How to Remedy It  (Ottawa: Canadian Human Rights Act Review Panel, 1999)
• Bruce Porter "Twenty Years of Equality Rights: Reclaiming Expectations" (2004) Unpublished manuscript prepared for the Court Challenges Program Equality Panel and a consultation of equality seeking groups held in Ottawa, October 1 -2 2004.
• "Homelessness, Human Rights, Litigation and Law Reform: A View from Canada" (2004) in Philip Lynch and Dianne Otto, eds, Homelessness and Human Rights : 10 Australian Journal for Human Rights (forthcoming December, 2004).
• Maria Foscarinis, Brad Paul, Bruce Porter and Andrew Scherer, "The Human Right to Housing: Making the Case in U.S. Advocacy" (2004) 38 (3-4) Clearinghouse Review Journal of Poverty Law and Policy 97. (PDF)
• Report on Direct Access to Binding Adjudication Under the Canadian Human Rights Act (Raj Anand and Mohan Sharma). (PDF)
• Alison Harvison Young, "Keeping the Courts at Bay: The Canadian Human Rights Commission and Its Counterparts in Britain and Northern Ireland: Some Comparative Lessons", (1993) 43 U.T.L.J. 65 (1993).
• Mark Hart and Geri Sanson, "GETTING RID OF THE "GATEKEEPER": A PRACTICAL MODEL FOR HUMAN RIGHTS REFORM"  (Word or Word Perfect format)