This motion concerned the appointment of a litigation guardian. The claimant’s counsel wrote to the LAT stating that the claimant did not have capacity, and was impecunious and unable to afford the cost of proceeding with a guardianship application. The LAT Rules did not provide a process for appointing a guardian. Vice Chair Hunter held that Rule 14 allowed him to make any order that was proper for the hearing to proceed. He adopted the process used by the Social Justice Tribunal of Ontario to allow the claimant to appoint a litigation guardian.
