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<ref name="Rules">Ontario Landlord & Tenant Board, Rules of Procedure Effective September 1, 2021, Updated July 1, 2025, <https://tribunalsontario.ca/documents/ltb/Rules/LTB%20Rules%20of%20Procedure.html>, retrieved 2025-07-10</ref>
<ref name="Rules">Ontario Landlord & Tenant Board, Rules of Procedure Effective September 1, 2021, Updated July 1, 2025, <https://tribunalsontario.ca/documents/ltb/Rules/LTB%20Rules%20of%20Procedure.html>, retrieved 2025-07-10</ref>
==Homestead Land Holdings Limited v Manji, 2023 ONLTB 45337 (CanLII)<ref name="Manji"/>==
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.
<ref name="Manji">Homestead Land Holdings Limited v Manji, 2023 ONLTB 45337 (CanLII), <https://canlii.ca/t/k4qtl>, retrieved on 2025-07-10</ref>


==References==
==References==

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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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Landlord & Tenant Board Rules of Procedure[1]

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

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


[1]

Homestead Land Holdings Limited v Manji, 2023 ONLTB 45337 (CanLII)[2]

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.


[2]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Ontario Landlord & Tenant Board, Rules of Procedure Effective September 1, 2021, Updated July 1, 2025, <https://tribunalsontario.ca/documents/ltb/Rules/LTB%20Rules%20of%20Procedure.html>, retrieved 2025-07-10
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Homestead Land Holdings Limited v Manji, 2023 ONLTB 45337 (CanLII), <https://canlii.ca/t/k4qtl>, retrieved on 2025-07-10
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