Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario
B E T W E E N:
Erica Simons
Applicant
-and-
Toronto Police Services Board, William Blair, Arshad Khawaja and Edward Malachowski
Respondents
AND B E T W E E N:
Sylvia Edgecombe
Applicant
-and-
Toronto Police Services Board, William Blair, Arshad Khawaja and Edward Malachowski
Respondents
INTERIM DECISION
Adjudicator: Kaye Joachim
Indexed as: Simons v. Toronto Police Services Board
1These are two Applications filed November 19, 2008 under section 53(3) of Part VI of the Human Rights Code, R.S.O. 1990, c. H.19, as amended (the “Code”). The respondents have not yet filed their Responses (Form B) which are due 35 days after they received the Applications (Form A).
2The Tribunal’s Rules for Applications under section 53(3) of the Code are to be interpreted and applied in a way that ensures a fair, just and highly expeditious process for the determination of these applications.
3These Applications involve identical facts and appear to raise similar legal issues. Accordingly, I find, pursuant to Rules 1.1, 4.1 and 4.3 (m), that in order to ensure a fair, just and highly expeditious process for their resolution, these Applications should proceed together for the purposes of mediation.
4In order to assist in scheduling the mediation expeditiously, all parties are requested to provide, within 10 days from the date of this decision, a list of available dates for mediation in March 2009.
5I am not seized of these matters.
Dated at Toronto, this 2nd day of December, 2008.
“Signed by”
Kaye Joachim
Alternate Chair