What is the burden of bringing a complaint to the BC Human Rights Tribunal over a year late?
British Columbia, Canada
The following excerpt is from Hanhisalo v. Summit Square Apartments and another, 2011 BCHRT 5 (CanLII):
Having filed the complaint over a year late, the onus is on the complainant to persuade the Tribunal both that it is in the public interest to accept it, and that no substantial prejudice would result to any person in doing so: Chartier v. School District No. 62, 2003 BCHRT 39, para. 12.
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