Mandate

• Facilitate timely access to the Specific Claims Tribunal through client service, quality of advice, efficient and timely processing and unbiased service delivery.
• Ensure the smooth and efficient functioning of hearings.
• Promote awareness and understanding of the Specific Claims Tribunal Act and related rules and procedures.
• Safeguard the independence of the Specific Claims Tribunal by placing them at arm’s length from the Government of Canada while providing the tribunal members of the Specific Claims Tribunal with all the necessary tools and resources to perform their duties.
  

Mission

• To provide timely and accurate registry, support and corporate services to the tribunal members and to our clients in a professional, innovative and cost-effective manner.
  

Vision

• To be recognized as a national and international model of excellence in the administration of justice for Aboriginal people and the Crown.
• Committed to being respectful toward First Nation’s values and traditions.
• Dedicated to providing a single point of service, in both official languages.
  

Departmental Strategic Priorities

1. Implementing a comprehensive, dynamic and fully integrated people management strategy which will support all employees.
2. Sustaining innovation modernization of registry practices and processes in support of our clients.
3. Implementing comprehensive processes that ensure sustained planning and accountability.

Raison d’être

The Registry provides administrative services to the Tribunal, Legal Profession and the public in order to support the resolution of cases fairly, without delay, and with an efficient, effective and economic application of resources.

Business Goals

1. Strive to make the Registry a “Workplace of Choice”
2. Strive to make the Registry the “Forum of Choice”
3. Strive to provide “Seamless Service”
   

Functions

• Provide parties and their counsel with services relating to hearings.
• Inform parties about rules of practice, directives and procedures.
• Maintain records and record all proceedings.
• Act as liaison between the tribunal members and the legal profession & the public.
• Provide tribunal members with a wide array of direct support services.
• Process documents filed by or issued by parties.
• Distribute decisions/judgments/orders to parties and the public.
• Serve as a depository wherein individuals seeking enforcement of decisions made by the Tribunal may access these public records.