Financial Services Commission of Ontario
This organization amalgamates the former Ontario Insurance Commission, the Pension Commission of Ontario, and the Deposit Institutions Division of the Ministry of Finance. The site provides a useful source of full-text decisions searchable by date or title. Choose Automobile Insurance, then Dispute Resolution Service - Arbitration and Appeal Decisions. Oddly, the site still requires users to request a user name and password to be able to access the decisions.  However, it seems everyone who does this is given the same answer so, to save you a step, the required user name is decisions and the password is subscription.
http://www.fsco.gov.on.ca

Ontario Licence Appeal Tribunal
This tribunal is an adjudicative agency, created on April 1, 2000 under the Licence Appeal Tribunal Act, 1999, as part of the Ontario government’s mandate to provide a more streamlined, responsive and efficient justice system.  The Tribunal consolidates four appeal boards - the licensing appeal responsibility of the Child and Family Services Review Board, the Commercial Registration Appeal Tribunal, the Licence Suspension Appeal Board and the Private Vocational Review Board. 

The website for the Tribunal is visually appealing and well organized, providing all the usual information one would expect – the Chair’s message, contact information, members appointment details, and of course, decisions. 

The decision section contains Tribunal decisions, and Rules and Orders, as well as the decisions from the Superior Court of Justice, as they relate to an appeal of a Tribunal's decision, for the current fiscal year April 1st to March 31st. They are grouped by statute and type of appeal, and are downloadable in pdf format. Unfortunately, there is no key word searching function.  Decisions are accessed by drilling down from the name of the act being considered, to the year, to the month, and then to case name.

The Tribunal decisions for the previous years are available in an Archives section, dating back to 2001.  Again unfortunately, until 2003-2004, the decisions are all contained in one long PDF document for each time period (2001-2002 and 2002-2003).  These are searchable only by using the “find in page” feature on the browser edit menu, or by using the Adobe navigation pane, and drilling down from the name of the statute. The site notes that the decisions of the former Commercial Registration Appeal Tribunal (CRAT) and the Licence Suspension Appeal Board (LSAB) are also available on Quicklaw, or by phoning the Tribunal at 1-800-255-2214. 

One of the nicer features of this site is “Bench Briefs” which provides a brief summary of selected important cases heard by the Tribunal, the Superior Court of Justice and other jurisdictions, along with the relevant decision. Visitors to this feature are advised that parties appearing before the LAT may be interested in using those precedents when preparing for the hearing. The summaries are grouped by statute and by type of appeal. Clicking on the name of a decision accesses the full text, which is downloadable in pdf format.  Bookmark this site at http://www.lat.gov.on.ca.

Ontario Municipal Board
This site has been recommended by some of our members as the preferred source for OMB decisions and materials.  Currently there are over 6000 e-decisions in this database back to 2001 and references to print sources and commercial publishers for access to earlier decisions.  The decisions can be searched by case name, counsel or key word, and a maximum of 20 records will be returned per search.  Results are displayed as case abstracts, and can be scanned quickly for relevance before linking to the full text.

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