Veterans Affairs committee  The functioning of the CPP tribunal is somewhat different from that of the Veterans Review and Appeal Board. In that situation, there is a three member panel. There'll be a lawyer, a physician, and a community member on the panel. As well, individuals are not represented by couns

Veterans Affairs committee  I am the lead with respect to the follow-up report. What we're specifically looking at is to determine the extent to which the department, the tribunal, as well as the minister have actioned the recommendations that we've put forward in our report. It's restricted to the origin

Veterans Affairs committee  From a legal perspective we need to balance the public interest to know about the cases with the privacy of the individuals, but the Privacy Commissioner has issued a series of guidelines to administrative tribunals in order to achieve that balance.

Veterans Affairs committee  When I came into the job in April 2009, one of the first things I did to educate myself was to pull all of the Federal Court decisions with the VRAB. Because of the lack of information it was my best source in order to educate myself about how the VRAB worked. When those decisio

Veterans Affairs committee  Unfortunately, the Gilbert case is not an atypical case. If you go through our report, there are a number of clients mentioned in that report, but probably the most flagrant one would be Mr. Bradley who has gone to the Federal Court five times. He has won at the Federal Court and

Veterans Affairs committee  I will respond in English because my response was prepared. The concept of benefit of the doubt is enshrined in subsection 5(3) of the Pension Act, section 43 of the NVC, section 35 of the War Veterans Allowance Act, as well as in section 39 of the Veterans Review and Appeal Boa