The Tribunal held that where the QHRC accepts a complaint as a whole under ss 136 and 141 of the AD Act, it has no power to selectively exclude named respondents from the accepted complaint; the power to reject lies in s 139 (requiring the complaint to be frivolous, trivial, vexatious, misconceived or lacking in substance), not in s 136. Because the QHRC's referral expressly stated the complaint was 'accepted as a whole' and the complaint form named four respondents, all four were already parties to the proceedings before the Tribunal, making the joinder application unnecessary. The Tribunal dismissed the joinder application but directed the Registrar to amend the court file to add the two respondents the QHRC had improperly excluded from the accepted complaint.
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