{"id":7786,"date":"2022-01-15T10:33:27","date_gmt":"2022-01-15T15:33:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/360mediations.com\/en\/?p=7786"},"modified":"2022-01-15T10:33:48","modified_gmt":"2022-01-15T15:33:48","slug":"divisional-court-upholds-gatekeeper-function-by-not-assisting-unrepresented-litigant-with-a-perceived-unmeritorious-claim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.360mediations.com\/en\/divisional-court-upholds-gatekeeper-function-by-not-assisting-unrepresented-litigant-with-a-perceived-unmeritorious-claim\/","title":{"rendered":"Divisional Court Upholds Gatekeeper Function by not Assisting Unrepresented Litigant with a Perceived Unmeritorious Claim."},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Divisional Court Upholds Gatekeeper Function by not Assisting Unrepresented Litigant with a Perceived Unmeritorious Claim<\/strong>.\u00a0 In this instance, the unrepresented litigant brought their appeal in the wrong court, and urged the appellate court to transfer the case to the proper appeal court (the Court of Appeal).\u00a0 In refusing to do so, the Divisional Court felt uncompelled to send an unmeritorious claim to the proper appellate court, but it was still open to the litigant to try to convince the Court of Appeal to accept his appeal.\u00a0 In describing the gate keeping function, the Divisional Court said the following:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cUnrepresented litigants are not entitled to pursue proceedings that are without merit, any more than represented litigants may pursue such proceedings, and the court must act as a gatekeeper to filter unmeritorious cases out of the system so that they do not consume scarce judicial resources that could be devoted to other cases.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mohammed v. Sajjad-Hazai, 2022 ONSC 285 (CanLII)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.canlii.org\/en\/on\/onscdc\/doc\/2022\/2022onsc285\/2022onsc285.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Divisional Court Upholds Gatekeeper Function by not Assisting Unrepresented Litigant with a Perceived Unmeritorious Claim.\u00a0 In this instance, the unrepresented litigant brought their appeal in the wrong court, and urged the appellate court to transfer the case to the proper appeal court (the Court of Appeal).\u00a0 In refusing to do so, the Divisional Court felt… Continue reading Divisional Court Upholds Gatekeeper Function by not Assisting Unrepresented Litigant with a Perceived Unmeritorious Claim.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[53],"tags":[55],"class_list":["post-7786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-court-practice","tag-court-gatekeeping-function-unmeritorious-claims","entry"],"yoast_head":"\nDivisional Court Upholds Gatekeeper Function by not Assisting Unrepresented Litigant with a Perceived Unmeritorious Claim. - 360Mediations<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"\u201cUnrepresented litigants are not entitled to pursue proceedings that are without merit, any more than represented litigants may pursue such proceedings, and the court must act as a gatekeeper to filter unmeritorious cases out of the system so that they do not consume scarce judicial resources that could be devoted to other cases.\u201d\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/mail.360mediations.com\/en\/divisional-court-upholds-gatekeeper-function-by-not-assisting-unrepresented-litigant-with-a-perceived-unmeritorious-claim\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Divisional Court Upholds Gatekeeper Function by not Assisting Unrepresented Litigant with a Perceived Unmeritorious Claim. - 360Mediations\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"\u201cUnrepresented litigants are not entitled to pursue proceedings that are without merit, any more than represented litigants may pursue such proceedings, and the court must act as a gatekeeper to filter unmeritorious cases out of the system so that they do not consume scarce judicial resources that could be devoted to other cases.\u201d\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/mail.360mediations.com\/en\/divisional-court-upholds-gatekeeper-function-by-not-assisting-unrepresented-litigant-with-a-perceived-unmeritorious-claim\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"360Mediations\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/360Mediations-120028596572318\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:author\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/360Mediations-120028596572318\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2022-01-15T15:33:27+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2022-01-15T15:33:48+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.360mediations.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/COURT-DECISIONS-360MEDIATIONS-1x1-1.png?fit=406%2C322&ssl=1\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"406\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"322\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/png\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"David M. Jose\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"David M. Jose\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/mail.360mediations.com\/en\/divisional-court-upholds-gatekeeper-function-by-not-assisting-unrepresented-litigant-with-a-perceived-unmeritorious-claim\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/mail.360mediations.com\/en\/divisional-court-upholds-gatekeeper-function-by-not-assisting-unrepresented-litigant-with-a-perceived-unmeritorious-claim\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"David M. Jose\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/mail.360mediations.com\/en\/#\/schema\/person\/c347754b73cc5b9c07764e2b4051a0ff\"},\"headline\":\"Divisional Court Upholds Gatekeeper Function by not Assisting Unrepresented Litigant with a Perceived Unmeritorious Claim.\",\"datePublished\":\"2022-01-15T15:33:27+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2022-01-15T15:33:48+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/mail.360mediations.com\/en\/divisional-court-upholds-gatekeeper-function-by-not-assisting-unrepresented-litigant-with-a-perceived-unmeritorious-claim\/\"},\"wordCount\":182,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/mail.360mediations.com\/en\/#organization\"},\"keywords\":[\"Court Gatekeeping Function Unmeritorious Claims\"],\"articleSection\":[\"Court Practice\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/mail.360mediations.com\/en\/divisional-court-upholds-gatekeeper-function-by-not-assisting-unrepresented-litigant-with-a-perceived-unmeritorious-claim\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/mail.360mediations.com\/en\/divisional-court-upholds-gatekeeper-function-by-not-assisting-unrepresented-litigant-with-a-perceived-unmeritorious-claim\/\",\"name\":\"Divisional Court Upholds Gatekeeper Function by not Assisting Unrepresented Litigant with a Perceived Unmeritorious Claim. - 360Mediations\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/mail.360mediations.com\/en\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2022-01-15T15:33:27+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2022-01-15T15:33:48+00:00\",\"description\":\"\u201cUnrepresented litigants are not entitled to pursue proceedings that are without merit, any more than represented litigants may pursue such proceedings, and the court must act as a gatekeeper to filter unmeritorious cases out of the system so that they do not consume scarce judicial resources that could be devoted to other cases.\u201d\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/mail.360mediations.com\/en\/divisional-court-upholds-gatekeeper-function-by-not-assisting-unrepresented-litigant-with-a-perceived-unmeritorious-claim\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/mail.360mediations.com\/en\/divisional-court-upholds-gatekeeper-function-by-not-assisting-unrepresented-litigant-with-a-perceived-unmeritorious-claim\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/mail.360mediations.com\/en\/divisional-court-upholds-gatekeeper-function-by-not-assisting-unrepresented-litigant-with-a-perceived-unmeritorious-claim\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/mail.360mediations.com\/en\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Divisional Court Upholds Gatekeeper Function by not Assisting Unrepresented Litigant with a Perceived Unmeritorious Claim.\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/mail.360mediations.com\/en\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/mail.360mediations.com\/en\/\",\"name\":\"360Mediations\",\"description\":\"David M. Jose - Taking your dispute full circle to resolution....\",\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/mail.360mediations.com\/en\/#organization\"},\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/mail.360mediations.com\/en\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Organization\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/mail.360mediations.com\/en\/#organization\",\"name\":\"360Mediations\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/mail.360mediations.com\/en\/\",\"logo\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/mail.360mediations.com\/en\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/360mediations.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/360Mediations-Logo-Medium.png?fit=600%2C600&ssl=1\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/360mediations.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/360Mediations-Logo-Medium.png?fit=600%2C600&ssl=1\",\"width\":600,\"height\":600,\"caption\":\"360Mediations\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/mail.360mediations.com\/en\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\"},\"sameAs\":[\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/360Mediations-120028596572318\"]},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/mail.360mediations.com\/en\/#\/schema\/person\/c347754b73cc5b9c07764e2b4051a0ff\",\"name\":\"David M. Jose\",\"description\":\"Full time Mediator servicing the Province of Ontario.\",\"sameAs\":[\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/360Mediations-120028596572318\"],\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.360mediations.com\/en\/author\/david-m-jose\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Divisional Court Upholds Gatekeeper Function by not Assisting Unrepresented Litigant with a Perceived Unmeritorious Claim. - 360Mediations","description":"\u201cUnrepresented litigants are not entitled to pursue proceedings that are without merit, any more than represented litigants may pursue such proceedings, and the court must act as a gatekeeper to filter unmeritorious cases out of the system so that they do not consume scarce judicial resources that could be devoted to other cases.\u201d","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/mail.360mediations.com\/en\/divisional-court-upholds-gatekeeper-function-by-not-assisting-unrepresented-litigant-with-a-perceived-unmeritorious-claim\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Divisional Court Upholds Gatekeeper Function by not Assisting Unrepresented Litigant with a Perceived Unmeritorious Claim. - 360Mediations","og_description":"\u201cUnrepresented litigants are not entitled to pursue proceedings that are without merit, any more than represented litigants may pursue such proceedings, and the court must act as a gatekeeper to filter unmeritorious cases out of the system so that they do not consume scarce judicial resources that could be devoted to other cases.\u201d","og_url":"https:\/\/mail.360mediations.com\/en\/divisional-court-upholds-gatekeeper-function-by-not-assisting-unrepresented-litigant-with-a-perceived-unmeritorious-claim\/","og_site_name":"360Mediations","article_publisher":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/360Mediations-120028596572318","article_author":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/360Mediations-120028596572318","article_published_time":"2022-01-15T15:33:27+00:00","article_modified_time":"2022-01-15T15:33:48+00:00","og_image":[{"width":406,"height":322,"url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.360mediations.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/COURT-DECISIONS-360MEDIATIONS-1x1-1.png?fit=406%2C322&ssl=1","type":"image\/png"}],"author":"David M. Jose","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"David M. Jose","Est. reading time":"1 minute"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/mail.360mediations.com\/en\/divisional-court-upholds-gatekeeper-function-by-not-assisting-unrepresented-litigant-with-a-perceived-unmeritorious-claim\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/mail.360mediations.com\/en\/divisional-court-upholds-gatekeeper-function-by-not-assisting-unrepresented-litigant-with-a-perceived-unmeritorious-claim\/"},"author":{"name":"David M. Jose","@id":"https:\/\/mail.360mediations.com\/en\/#\/schema\/person\/c347754b73cc5b9c07764e2b4051a0ff"},"headline":"Divisional Court Upholds Gatekeeper Function by not Assisting Unrepresented Litigant with a Perceived Unmeritorious Claim.","datePublished":"2022-01-15T15:33:27+00:00","dateModified":"2022-01-15T15:33:48+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/mail.360mediations.com\/en\/divisional-court-upholds-gatekeeper-function-by-not-assisting-unrepresented-litigant-with-a-perceived-unmeritorious-claim\/"},"wordCount":182,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/mail.360mediations.com\/en\/#organization"},"keywords":["Court Gatekeeping Function Unmeritorious Claims"],"articleSection":["Court Practice"],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/mail.360mediations.com\/en\/divisional-court-upholds-gatekeeper-function-by-not-assisting-unrepresented-litigant-with-a-perceived-unmeritorious-claim\/","url":"https:\/\/mail.360mediations.com\/en\/divisional-court-upholds-gatekeeper-function-by-not-assisting-unrepresented-litigant-with-a-perceived-unmeritorious-claim\/","name":"Divisional Court Upholds Gatekeeper Function by not Assisting Unrepresented Litigant with a Perceived Unmeritorious Claim. - 360Mediations","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/mail.360mediations.com\/en\/#website"},"datePublished":"2022-01-15T15:33:27+00:00","dateModified":"2022-01-15T15:33:48+00:00","description":"\u201cUnrepresented litigants are not entitled to pursue proceedings that are without merit, any more than represented litigants may pursue such proceedings, and the court must act as a gatekeeper to filter unmeritorious cases out of the system so that they do not consume scarce judicial resources that could be devoted to other cases.\u201d","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/mail.360mediations.com\/en\/divisional-court-upholds-gatekeeper-function-by-not-assisting-unrepresented-litigant-with-a-perceived-unmeritorious-claim\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/mail.360mediations.com\/en\/divisional-court-upholds-gatekeeper-function-by-not-assisting-unrepresented-litigant-with-a-perceived-unmeritorious-claim\/"]}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/mail.360mediations.com\/en\/divisional-court-upholds-gatekeeper-function-by-not-assisting-unrepresented-litigant-with-a-perceived-unmeritorious-claim\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/mail.360mediations.com\/en\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Divisional Court Upholds Gatekeeper Function by not Assisting Unrepresented Litigant with a Perceived Unmeritorious Claim."}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/mail.360mediations.com\/en\/#website","url":"https:\/\/mail.360mediations.com\/en\/","name":"360Mediations","description":"David M. Jose - Taking your dispute full circle to resolution....","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/mail.360mediations.com\/en\/#organization"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/mail.360mediations.com\/en\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https:\/\/mail.360mediations.com\/en\/#organization","name":"360Mediations","url":"https:\/\/mail.360mediations.com\/en\/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/mail.360mediations.com\/en\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/360mediations.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/360Mediations-Logo-Medium.png?fit=600%2C600&ssl=1","contentUrl":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/360mediations.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/360Mediations-Logo-Medium.png?fit=600%2C600&ssl=1","width":600,"height":600,"caption":"360Mediations"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/mail.360mediations.com\/en\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/"},"sameAs":["https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/360Mediations-120028596572318"]},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/mail.360mediations.com\/en\/#\/schema\/person\/c347754b73cc5b9c07764e2b4051a0ff","name":"David M. Jose","description":"Full time Mediator servicing the Province of Ontario.","sameAs":["https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/360Mediations-120028596572318"],"url":"https:\/\/www.360mediations.com\/en\/author\/david-m-jose\/"}]}},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.360mediations.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7786","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.360mediations.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.360mediations.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.360mediations.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.360mediations.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7786"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.360mediations.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7786\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.360mediations.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.360mediations.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.360mediations.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}