Adam Lawson

The plaintiff was injured at Centreville and sued the City of Toronto and Beasley Enterprises.

The City requested Beasley to assume its defence pursuant to a licence agreement, but Beasley refused and crossclaimed against the City.

The action was eventually settled by Beasley and discontinued against the City.

The City brought a motion for its costs.

The court found the plaintiffs acted reasonably in keeping the City in the action, but ordered Beasley to pay the City's partial indemnity costs of $20,689.85 due to the indemnity provisions in the licence agreement and Beasley's refusal to let the City out of the action.

The applicant, a former Director of the Medical Library, alleged that the respondent hospital failed to maintain pay equity, failed to post an amended pay equity plan, delayed providing a list of comparators, and terminated her employment as a reprisal for raising pay equity concerns.

The Tribunal found that the applicant's termination was due to hospital-wide budgetary constraints, not reprisal.

The Tribunal also held that the respondent's job evaluation of the applicant's position was reasonable and that pay equity had been maintained.

However, the Tribunal granted a declaration that the respondent violated section 1(3) of the Pay Equity Act by failing to provide the applicant with her male comparators within a reasonable time.

The applicant brought an application under the Pay Equity Act.

At the hearing, the applicant raised a new allegation that the respondent's 1990 pay equity plan was not compliant with the Act, and sought a production order for related documents.

The Tribunal held it lacked jurisdiction to consider the new allegation because it had not been raised with Review Services.

The Tribunal also largely denied the production request, finding it overbroad, irrelevant to the permitted issues, and significantly delayed contrary to the parties' pre-hearing memorandum of agreement.