Legal Representative Testifying or Giving Evidence (LTB)

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Date Retrieved:	2025-07-13
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Citation:	Legal Representative Testifying or Giving Evidence (LTB), CLNP 2514, <https://rvt.link/fz>, retrieved on 2025-07-13
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Last Updated:	2025/07/10

Landlord & Tenant Board Rules of Procedure

1.6 In order to provide the most expeditious and fair determination of the questions arising in any proceeding the LTB may:

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q. exercise its discretion to permit a party's legal representative to give evidence where appropriate;

Homestead Land Holdings Limited v Manji, 2023 ONLTB 45337 (CanLII)

1. Prior to the hearing the Landlord’s representative objected to the Tenant’s representative providing submissions.

2. The Tenant did attend the hearing. Zain Atcha is a lawyer. The Tenant’s representative submits that as a lawyer he is not permitted to give evidence on the Tenant’s behalf.

3. Rule 1.6(q) of the LTB Rules of Procedure authorizes the Board to exercise discretion to permit a party’s legal representative to give evidence where appropriate. This rule does not distinguish between a lawyer and a paralegal.

4. The Tenant’s representative has knowledge of the Tenant’s circumstance related to this motion. I find it appropriate to allow the Tenant’s representative to provide evidence on the Tenant’s behalf.