Practice Directions

The WSIAT’s current Practice Directions are grouped here and apply to all appeals started on or after May 6, 2024. Appeals started before this date may use an earlier version of a Practice Direction. Please check your Hearing Ready Letter to be sure you are applying the correct version of the Practice Direction.

You may also view these Practice Directions listed alphabetically.

The Pre-Hearing Appeal Process

• 1. How to Start an Appeal at the WSIAT
• 2. Appeals Involving Deceased Workers
• 3. Consent for the WSIAT to Release a Worker's Information
• 4. How to Prepare an Appeal at the WSIAT
• 5. Hearing Formats
• 6. Mediation - 2-Party Appeals
• 7. Alternative Dispute Resolution - 1-Party Appeals
• 8. Disclosure
• 9. Evidence
• 10. Surveillance Evidence
• 11. Expert Evidence
• 12. Summonses and Production of Documents
• 13. Medical Information Requested By the WSIAT
• 14. Pre-Hearing Conferences
• 15. Time Extension Applications
• 16. Access to Workers’ Information When the Issue in Dispute is at the Workplace Safety and Insurance Board (WSIB)
• 17. Right to Sue Applications

The Hearing

• 18. Notice of Hearing and Failure to Attend
• 19. Hearing Assignments
• 20. Interpreters
• 21. Who May Attend a Hearing
• 22. Downside Risk
• 23. Adjournments and Withdrawals
• 24. Inactive Appeals

Post-Hearing

• 25. Post-Hearing Procedure
• 26. Closing Appeals by the WSIAT
• 27. Reconsiderations

Representatives

• 28. Representatives
• 29. WSIAT Code of Conduct for Representatives
• 30. Representatives’ Fees and Costs

Tribunal General

• 31. Powers of Practice and Procedure
• 32. Procedure When Raising a Human Rights or Charter Question
• 33. Role of the Vice-Chair Registrar at the WSIAT
• 34. Role of the Tribunal Counsel Office at the WSIAT

Technical

• 35. Calculation of Time
• 36. Delivery and Filing Documents
• 37. WSIAT Hearing Recordings and Transcripts
• 38. Transcripts of Workplace Safety and Insurance Board (WSIB) Hearings
• 39. Fees and Expenses