Employment Insurance (EI)

Decision

[1] On June 9, 2015 and June 30, 2015, a member of the General Division determined that the appeal of the Applicant from two previous determinations of the Commission should be dismissed.  In due course, the Applicant filed an application for leave to appeal to the Appeal Division.

[2] Subsection 58(1) of the Department of Employment and Social Development Act states that the only grounds of appeal are that:

1. (a) The General Division failed to observe a principle of natural justice or otherwise acted beyond or refused to exercise its jurisdiction;
2. (b) The General Division erred in law in making its decision, whether or not the error appears on the face of the record; or
3. (c) The General Division based its decision on an erroneous finding of fact that it made in a perverse or capricious manner or without regard for the material before it.

[3] The Act also states that leave to appeal is to be refused if the appeal has “no reasonable chance of success”.

[4] In his application for leave to appeal, the Applicant outlines his views as to how the General Division member made legal and factual errors in dismissing his appeal.  Specifically, he alleges that the General Division did not properly consider the entirety of his testimony, at least in part as a result of the single appeal being divided into two separate files.

[5] Although I make no finding on the matter, I note that if proven these submissions could ground a successful appeal.  I therefore find that this application has a reasonable chance of success.  For that reason, this application for leave to appeal must be granted.