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Judicial review dismissed; housing cooperative had delegated authority to terminate rent subsidy.
The applicant sought judicial review of a housing cooperative's decision that she was no longer eligible for a Rent-Geared-to-Income subsidy after refusing an offer for a one-bedroom unit.
The applicant argued the cooperative lacked the delegated authority to make this determination.
The Divisional Court dismissed the application, finding that the service manager had expressly delegated the authority to determine eligibility and consider extenuating circumstances to the cooperative.
The court also found the cooperative's decision that the applicant failed to establish extenuating circumstances was reasonable.
Motion granted to anonymize affidavits of strippers challenging COVID-19 regulations to protect against economic and social harm.
The applicant, an advocacy group for strippers, brought a preliminary motion for an order permitting the anonymization of affidavits to be sworn by strippers in support of an application for judicial review challenging COVID-19 regulations.
The applicant argued that publicly identifying the affiants would put their economic and family safety at risk due to the stigma associated with their occupation.
Applying the Dagenais/Mentuck test, the court found that the applicant established a serious risk to the administration of justice and that there was no reasonable alternative to the order.
The court granted the motion, allowing the use of non-identifying initials in publicly available documents, provided that the respondent and the court have access to the affiants' full names in a sealed record.
Summary judgment granted awarding sole custody to grandparents due to mother's instability and lack of parenting plan.
The applicant grandparents sought summary judgment for final sole custody of their grandson, who had been living with them since March 2018 following a traumatic incident involving the respondent mother.
The mother opposed the motion but failed to provide evidence of a stable housing or parenting plan.
Relying on the uncontested report of the Office of the Children's Lawyer and finding no genuine issue for trial, the court granted sole custody to the grandparents and ordered access for the mother.
