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Build and deploy / build-and-deploy (push) Failing after 5s
Step 5 ships /practice/ and the six practice-area pages (construction,
technology, energy, insurance, shareholder, cross-border) from one route, and
adds the mechanical §4 gate Pouya ruled for.
check:claims — §4 Forbidden becomes a build error
scripts/check-claims.mjs greps dist/**/*.html for 10 patterns, each carrying
the incident that put it there. It strips <style> and non-JSON-LD <script>
first (a bare sweep for "leading" returned 26 hits, 25 of them
var(--leading-body)), self-tests every pattern against fixtures before
sweeping, and refuses a missing, empty or stale dist/. Wired into /build
Phase 5 and both deploy paths.
Q54 — six conduct undertakings publish, and §4 gains a third class
Conduct undertakings sit apart from credentials and offerings: the gate is
that Pouya said it in terms. The strings live in CONDUCT_UNDERTAKINGS so a
softening is one visible diff. (e) and (f) replace the third-person sentences
already on /arbitration/ rather than joining them.
Q49, Q50 recorded as rulings. §7 records the SES us-east-1 stray identity's
deletion. R11 holds typescript at its current major, with the peer-range
reason recorded.
Three facts corrected, two of them already shipped
- The LAT gloss said mediation "before filing and continuing after filing";
the Tribunal names mediation for "Before you apply" only and its second
sentence is about negotiation. An ellipsis in docs/01 had deleted it.
- "Connection allocation" is not an Ontario term.
- "The 2026 privacy statute" does not exist — Bill C-27 died without royal
assent. Struck from docs/03 rather than corrected in place.
ADR Chambers struck from /arbitration/ and from docs/01 item 3 (Pouya,
2026-08-30): the source establishes what the firm publishes, not that an
outside neutral can be appointed under its rules.
claims-auditor gains a second lens — for every quoted source, whether the
sentence beneath stays inside what the quotation establishes. Four shipped
defects had that shape and none of them is greppable.
CLAUDE.md gains a convention: never truncate the output of a check you intend
to believe. `npm run check | tail -3` returns warnings, hints and a blank line
and drops the errors line; it was reported as passing four times while
astro check was exiting 1 with 10 type errors.
Gates, exit status read directly, not through a pipe:
npm run check exit=0
npm run lint exit=0
npm run build exit=0
npm run check:claims exit=0
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Md3GndFqWPzK78xAoebsg5
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# Reference — how the Licence Appeal Tribunal actually runs its pre-hearing step
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**Why this file exists.** `AGENTS.md` Q41(c) asked what `LAT pre-hearing
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mediation` means as an offering. Pouya's ruling of 2026-08-27: *"'LAT pre-hearing
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mediation' is imprecise and must not imply appointment by the tribunal. Verify
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against LAT's own materials how its case-conference process is conducted and who
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conducts it."* This is that verification, committed rather than cited, under
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`CLAUDE.md`'s rule that anything a spec makes a claim about must be reachable
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from the repository (R14).
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---
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## Provenance — read this before quoting anything below
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| Source 1 | `https://tribunalsontario.ca/documents/lat/LAT-Rules.html` — *Licence Appeal Tribunal, Animal Care Review Board and Fire Safety Commission Rules of Practice and Procedure*, effective July 21, 2023 |
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| Source 2 | `https://tribunalsontario.ca/lat-aabs/application-and-hearing-process/` — LAT‑AABS, *Application and hearing process* |
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| Retrieved | **2026-08-28** |
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| Method | `curl -sS -o <file> '<url>'` — HTTP **200** both; **88,429 B** (rules) and **107,996 B** (AABS page) |
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| Text extraction | script/style stripped, tags stripped, entities unescaped, whitespace collapsed → **66,593** and **33,696** characters |
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> ⚠️ **NO HASHES, AND THE REASON IS THE POINT.** This table carried `sha256`
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> prefixes `07d9c077e41cc8bd` and `08eff9a73b683cc5`. They are removed because
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> **they cannot be reproduced, and a stamp that cannot be re-checked is worse
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> than no stamp** — a future reader who re-fetches and gets a different digest
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> would conclude the source had changed when it had not.
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>
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> Found by `adversarial-reviewer`, which re-fetched both URLs and got two
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> different digests, then two more on two further fetches. Cause isolated by
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> diffing consecutive responses: `LAT-Rules.html` carries a per-request
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> bot-detection nonce (`__uzdbm_1`, `__uzdbm_2`), and the AABS page carries
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> rotating WordPress `?ver=` cache-busters. **The sha256 of these URLs is not a
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> stable quantity.**
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>
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> What *does* reproduce, and was independently reproduced: **both byte counts
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> exactly**, **all ten verbatim quotes** with their rule numbers and headings, and
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> **all four term counts**. So the substance of this file is verified twice over;
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> only the hashes were spurious. Same family as the `1.23:1` bounding box and the
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> `timeout 60 ls` in `CLAUDE.md` — a number that looks like verification, from a
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> probe nobody validated.
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**Instrument check, because `CLAUDE.md` requires one.** The word counts below were
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taken from the **raw fetched bytes**, not from a `WebFetch` answer. `WebFetch`
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answers through a summarising model, so a "quote" it returns may be a paraphrase
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— and the first pass here did return a plausible-looking Rule 14.4 quote
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(*"The case conference is an important opportunity to discuss settlement"*) that
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turned out to be **correct**, and a Rule 14.6 gloss that was **not** how the rule
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reads. Both were then checked against the literal text. Quotes in this file are
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literal; where the two disagreed the literal text won.
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A second instrument note: the rules document repeats every heading in a table of
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contents before the body, so a naive "find the heading" extraction returns the
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**TOC** and reports the rules as empty. The bodies are present, ~35 KB further in.
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---
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## Finding 1 — the LAT's settlement step is a *case conference*, and a Tribunal Member conducts it
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**Rule 2.4, verbatim:**
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> "Case Conference" has the same meaning as "Pre-Hearing Conference" as defined
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> in the SPPA.
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So **"pre-hearing" is the LAT's own term, and what it names is a case
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conference** — not a mediation.
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**Rule 14.2 — Scope of case conference subject matter, verbatim opening:**
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> The Tribunal may on its own initiative, or in response to a party's written
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> request, direct the parties to participate in a case conference to consider:
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> The settlement of any or all of the issues; […]
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**Rule 14.3 — Member not to participate on a hearing panel, verbatim:**
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> A Member who presides at or otherwise takes part in a case conference shall not
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> participate as a Member of a panel at a subsequent hearing of the appeal except
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> with the consent of the parties.
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**Rule 14.4 — Settlement discussions, verbatim:**
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> The case conference is an important opportunity to discuss settlement of the
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> issues without the need for a hearing. The parties are expected to come to the
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> case conference prepared to discuss settlement.
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>
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> All settlement discussions in a case conference and the documents put forward
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> solely for the purpose of settlement are confidential. Settlement discussions
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> are held on a "without prejudice" basis. Settlement discussions shall not be
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> communicated to the Member that participates in the hearing or otherwise be
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> relied on in a hearing before the Tribunal for any purpose unless the parties
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> consent.
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**Rule 14.6 — Party attendance, verbatim first sentence:**
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> A party as defined under Rule 2.16 must attend their case conference.
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**Rule 12 — Format, verbatim:**
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> In accordance with applicable provisions of the SPPA, the Tribunal may hold a
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> hearing or case conference in any of the following formats, as it considers
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> appropriate: In-person; Electronic; Written; or Any combination of the above.
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The public LAT‑AABS page adds, of the same step: *"A case conference is led by an
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adjudicator whose role is to guide and support the parties in working to resolve
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the dispute."*
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**Consequence:** the neutral in the LAT's pre-hearing step is a **Member /
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adjudicator of the Tribunal**. It is directed by the Tribunal, attendance is
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mandatory, and the Member is disqualified from the subsequent hearing panel. A
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privately retained neutral is not appointed to it and cannot be.
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## Finding 2 — the LAT Rules never use the words "mediation", "mediator" or "arbitration"
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Counted on the literal extracted text, case-sensitively for both cases:
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```
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lat-rules.html 66,593 chars 'mediat' 0 'Mediat' 0 'arbitrat' 0 'Arbitrat' 0
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lat-aabs.html 33,696 chars 'mediat' 1 'Mediat' 0 'arbitrat' 0 'Arbitrat' 0
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```
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**Zero** in the Rules. There is no rule providing for the Tribunal to appoint an
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external mediator, and no rule about a party retaining a private neutral —
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because the Rules do not contemplate the concept at all.
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## Finding 3 — the single match, read rather than counted
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`CLAUDE.md`: *a grep that matches is not a finding until you read what it
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matched.* The one `mediat` on the AABS page, printed with its heading, is this —
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and it is the affirmative basis for the offering rather than a problem for it:
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> **4. Consider other ways to resolve your dispute**
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>
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> Before you apply to the LAT‑AABS, you may want to consider negotiation or
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> mediation services. Parties are encouraged to attempt to negotiate the claim
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> at all times, including before filing at the LAT‑AABS, and continuing
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> negotiation discussions after a claim has been filed.
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> ⚠️ **CORRECTED 2026-08-29. THE GLOSS THAT STOOD HERE WAS WRONG, AND IT WAS
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> WRONG ABOUT THE QUOTATION THREE LINES ABOVE IT.** It read: *"The Tribunal
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> itself points parties at private mediation, **before filing and continuing
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> after filing.** That is exactly the space a privately retained mediator
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> occupies, and it is the Tribunal's own words for it."*
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>
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> **Read the passage again.** Sentence 1 names **mediation**, and names it for
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> one moment only — *"Before you apply."* Sentence 2 is about **negotiation**:
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> *"Parties are encouraged to attempt to **negotiate** the claim at all times,
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> including before filing at the LAT-AABS, and continuing **negotiation**
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> discussions after a claim has been filed."* The word appears twice. **The
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> "continuing after filing" frame belongs to negotiation, and the gloss carried
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> it across onto mediation.** The word **"private"** is not the Tribunal's
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> either — the sentence names no provider and draws no public/private
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> distinction.
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>
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> **What the passage does support:** the Tribunal names mediation as something a
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> party may consider **before applying**, and encourages negotiated settlement
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> at every stage. That is an affirmative basis for the offering. It is not a
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> Tribunal statement about mediating a claim that is already filed.
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>
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> **How this got past three checks.** The quotation was fetched, pasted
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> verbatim, and is correct. The overreach is in the sentence *underneath* it —
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> and that sentence, not the quote, is what propagated into `docs/01`, into
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> `src/data/site.ts`, and from there into published copy on three pages. Two
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> review rounds and a claims audit read this file and did not catch it, because
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> the quote sat right there and appeared to say it. Caught 2026-08-29 by an
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> independent re-fetch that read the sentence structure rather than the gloss.
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> **Same shape as Q39's struck universal: the source was fine and the sentence
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> drawn from it was wider than the source.**
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---
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## What this establishes, and what it does not
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**Establishes:**
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1. The LAT's pre-hearing settlement step is a **case conference conducted by a
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Tribunal Member**. `LAT pre-hearing mediation` therefore describes a thing
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that does not exist, and the half a reader would recognise — *pre-hearing* —
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is the Tribunal's own label for a step nobody outside the Tribunal conducts.
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2. The Tribunal names **mediation** as an option a party may consider **before
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applying**, and encourages negotiated settlement at all stages including
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after filing. *(Corrected 2026-08-29. This item read: "Private mediation of
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accident-benefits and SABS disputes is **compatible with a LAT application,
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before filing or after**, and the Tribunal says so." The last five words were
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false — see the correction box above. Whether a filed claim can also be
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privately mediated is not something this source addresses either way, and
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nothing here should be cited for it.)*
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**Does not establish:**
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- Anything about whether Pouya holds a roster position with the LAT or Tribunals
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Ontario. Nothing here bears on that. §4 has no such row, so the site claims
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none — per Pouya's ruling: *"If Pouya holds a roster position that makes more
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than that true, it is a §4 addition — absent a row, it isn't."*
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- Anything about *commercial* arbitration gating. Same caution as
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`ontario-family-arbitration-training.md`: a source about one process is not
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authority about another. These documents do not mention arbitration at all.
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## The wording that follows from it
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**Never publish** `LAT pre-hearing mediation`, or any phrasing in which a LAT
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proceeding appears to appoint or host the mediator.
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**Published instead** — `src/data/site.ts`, `PRACTICE_AREAS` → `insurance`:
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> Accident benefits and SABS entitlement, MIG disputes, and private mediation
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> retained by the parties, not the Tribunal's case conference.
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*(Corrected 2026-08-29. The blurb read "…and private mediation alongside a LAT
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application, before filing or after", and the "before filing or after" half
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rested entirely on the gloss corrected above. The replacement carries the
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distinction `docs/01` actually requires — **private, retained by the parties,
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not the Tribunal's case conference** — which is the high-value half and is fully
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supported. The Tribunal's own sentence about mediation before applying is quoted
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on the page rather than compressed into a card.)*
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`docs/01` keeps `LAT pre-hearing mediation` as a **search intent** — people do
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type it — with a note that it must never be lifted into copy. That lift is
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exactly what happened once already.
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`/practice/insurance/` at build step 5 must state that the mediation offered is
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**private**, retained by the parties, and **not the Tribunal's case conference**.
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