In a family conciliation case, from what event does the time to challenge or have the conciliation chief, a commissioner or a family investigation officer withdraw run?
General information · Not legal advice
Material to check
For this exercise, we read the papers identifying who served as conciliation chief, commissioner or family investigation officer, the filing stamp on any challenge or withdrawal request, and whatever the file shows about when the party learned the ground for it.
These are types of material to look for, not evidence already verified by PRO SE.
Where readings differ
One reading treats the provision as fully adopting the Civil Procedure Act's rules on recusal, challenge and withdrawal: those rules apply to the conciliation chief and a conciliation commissioner as they apply to a judge, and to a family investigation officer as they apply to a court officer, so the period and the event it runs from are the ones that text sets, read with the roles substituted.
Another reading stresses that the provision itself fixes no period, names no starting event and says nothing about the effect of a late step, so a file relying on this provision alone cannot show when a challenge was in time.
Your judgment
When the file shows both the date the ground became known and the date the challenge was filed, which of those dates should the applied period be counted from?
PRO SE does not make this decision or keep a case record on this public site.When to reconsider
We revisit this card if the provision is amended to set its own period or starting event, or if a court decision fixes which event starts the time for a challenge in a family conciliation.