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The plaintiff’s request to proceed anonymously was dismissed. The court held that open-court principles, her vexatious litigant history, and the nature of the defamation claim outweighed any privacy concerns.
The Tribunal granted a confidentiality motion, anonymizing the complainant and immediate family members to protect privacy and safety concerns involving a minor child.
The Tribunal granted a motion to anonymize an Indigenous transgender witness, finding a real and substantial risk of undue hardship from disclosure of her identity.
The Federal Court allowed judicial review of an RPD rejection, finding unreasonable conclusions on subjective fear and credibility in a refugee claim from Egypt.
The Tribunal exercised its discretion to permit limited media notice based on the open court principle and expressed media interest: it ordered that notice be provided to the specific media outlets that had contacted the Tribunal (APTN, CBC, The Tyee), required that materials provided to interested media be unredacted except for affidavits, and imposed strict conditions (anonymization of the interested person as "A.B.", for-counsel-eyes-only access, prohibition on publishing information derived from the materials) to protect privacy and prevent prejudice while allowing meaningful media partic…
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Member granted anonymization limited to the complainant: anonymize his name, redact his identifying information, anonymize or initial his witnesses to prevent connection to him, and redact all evidence mentioning him; ordered targeted disclosure by respondent consisting of specified keyword searches for communications and Skype messages for named managers for May 1, 2015–April 13, 2016 and disclosure of the complainant’s HR file if found; declined broader anonymization of the respondent and reserved resolution of disputed bonus information and privilege/redaction issues for future agreement o…
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The Tribunal found the specific medical information in 2014 CHRT 3 was not necessary for the public to understand the essence of the complaint and, exercising its discretion under s.52(1)(c) of the Canadian Human Rights Act and with the parties' consent, ordered that the detailed medical information be struck and replaced with a brief statement and that all information pertaining to the complainant's underlying medical condition remain confidential; the rulings otherwise will be published and the file closed.
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Appeal allowed. The Court of Appeal sealed the BCSC appeal file, subject to filing anonymized public versions of the notice of appeal, application, and sealing order.
The court refused to vary a consent order to make private school tuition a shared child-support expense, but ordered limited corporate disclosure and granted anonymity for the child.
The Supreme Court permitted a 15-year-old cyberbullying victim to proceed anonymously, but refused a publication ban on non-identifying Facebook content.
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