Search Our Decisions Update – WCAT is pleased to announce that there have been revisions to decision search on our new website. For example, in addition to the detailed "Search Help" available when searching our decisions, quick tips for searching have been added to both the Basic and Advanced decision search pages. These tips provide information such as how to search by policy, statutory section number or WCAT decision number. (Posted 2010/03/03)
PDF forms can now be filled and saved by users to their computers – WCAT is pleased to announce that the pdf forms on the Forms page of its new website can now be filled and saved by users to their computers, including the Notice of Appeal from Review Division and Notice of Appeal from WorkSafeBC forms.
Click here to go to the page with the pdf forms that can be filled and saved. (Posted 2010/02/26)
MRPP Housekeeping Corrections – We have corrected typos and slips on six pages of the revised MRPP – 38, 58, 73, 77, 180 and 192.
Click here for those pages with the corrections shown using “track changes” [pdf 82 Kb]. These typos and slips have also been corrected in the MRPP on our website without track changes. (Posted 2010/01/07)
MRPP Revision – WCAT’s Manual of Rules of Practice and Procedure is revised. It will become effective on November 3, 2009.
Click here for the revised MRPP [pdf 985 Kb].
Click here for highlights of the changes [pdf 28 Kb]. (Posted 2009/10/07)
WorkSafeBC Issues New Mental Stress Policy – In response to the British Columbia Court of Appeal’s decision in
Plesner v. British Columbia Hydro and Power Authority (2009 BCCA 188), the board of directors of WorkSafeBC have amended policy item #13.30. The amendment is effective April 30, 2009 and applies to all decisions, including appellate decisions, made on or after that date.
Click here for the resolution and policy amendment. (Posted 2009/08/24)
Common Law Reconsideration Applications: – In our
February 17, 2009 What’s new message we informed you that a message would be posted here should a future court decision provide additional guidance on the applicable standard of review in light of the Supreme Court of Canada’s decision in
Dunsmuir v. New Brunswick, 2008 SCC 9.
In
Manz v. Sundher, 2009 BCCA 92, the B.C. Court of Appeal determined that the patent unreasonableness standard in the Administrative Tribunals Act is constitutionally valid and that the Supreme Court of Canada’s decision in Dunsmuir does not change the meaning of that standard. In Dunsmuir the court collapsed the common law patent unreasonableness and reasonableness simpliciter standards of review into a single reasonableness standard. WCAT has updated its “
Applications for Reconsideration – WCAT Information Sheet” to refer to the Manz decision. (Posted 2009/06/23)
