Ready to file an HRTO application? This free online tool can help!
If you have experienced discrimination contrary to Ontario’s Human Rights Code, you can file a discrimination complaint (application) with the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario within 1 year. If you file an application at the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario, you will be required to attend a mediation with the other party to try to agree on a voluntary resolution. If that fails, you will then proceed to a hearing where an adjudicator (acting as a judge) will determine if Ontario’s Human Rights Code was violated, and may order remedies such as monetary compensation or policy changes.
This free step-by-step online tool can help you complete the HRTO’s Form 1.
About the Human Rights Guided Pathway
This tool was developed with the technical expertise and understanding of delivering accessible online legal education tools provided by Community Legal Education Ontario. Funded through the Law Foundation of Ontario’s responsive grant, this is one of the new technological tools the HRLSC aims to develop, streamlining and increasing client access (including online access) and enhancing data analytics for better informed decision-making.
This new resource is part of CLEO’s growing collection of Guided Pathways. These are free online interviews that help people fill out legal forms, draft letters, and identify next steps.
CLEO and the HRLSC worked together to ensure the pathway follow the legal process of filing a human rights complaint, providing online support to people facing barriers to addressing discrimination, harassment and reprisals that fall under Ontario’s Human Rights Code. Users can move at their own pace, get information in plain language, and fill out forms or create documents tailored to their situation.
I’m not ready to file an HRTO application yet…
Have I Experienced Discrimination? Take our Questionnaire
Need help figuring out if your experience is considered discrimination, harassment, or reprisal under Ontario’s Human Rights Code? Take our Questionnaire.
What are my other options?
Before taking legal action, you may want to try addressing an issue of discrimination directly through early intervention.
Learn about how to assert your rights.
How-to-Guides
Learn more about the HRTO application process, mediations, and hearings. Our How-To Guides provide detailed information, explanations, definitions, tips and links to help you through the legal process. Our free step-by-step online tool can help you complete this form.
Contact Us
The Human Rights Legal Support Centre offers legal supports at various stages, including through early resolutions, and the HRTO application, mandatory mediation, and hearing process.
If you’ve received a notice of mediation or hearing, start an online intake or contact us.
More about the LFO’s Responsive Grant:
This funding is provided in support of the HRLSC’s stakeholder-informed five-year strategic plan, Realizing Human Rights Together, while also increasing the Centre’s capacity to provide legal services and expand experiential learning.