The first step in getting ready for a hearing before the CCALAB is to prepare your Statement of Points and gather any evidence you will use in the appeal. Your Statement of Points is a written outline and explanation of your case. All parties will be required to submit a Statement of Points to the Board and to each participant well in advance of a hearing.
A hearing before the CCALAB may be conducted in-person, in writing, by telephone, or by videoconference. The parties will usually be consulted prior to the Board deciding on the style of hearing. If a hearing occurs by videoconference, the Board will use MS Teams and participants are encouraged to review the Board’s MS Teams User Guide beforehand.
The CCALAB has prepared several information sheets to assist you in preparing for your hearing. Please review all of them, but in particular see “Preparing for an Oral Hearing”. The information sheets provide general information and fill in some of the details about certain practices which may not be set out in the legislation or the Board’s Rules and Practice Directives. However, the information sheets are not a substitute for the legislation or the Board’s Rules for Appeals.
Another helpful website with information about preparing for hearings more generally is AdminLawBC’s Preparing for Hearing.