HUMAN RIGHTS TRIBUNAL OF ONTARIO
B E T W E E N:
Cameron Douglas by his litigation guardian Ellie Braham-Griffith
Applicant
-and-
Ajax-Pickering Dolphins Minor Football Club Inc., Joan Mcllravey, Jeff Priestman and Rob Colvin
Respondents
AND B E T W E E N:
Kainan Griffith by his litigation guardian Ellie Braham-Griffith
Applicant
-and-
Ajax-Pickering Dolphins Minor Football Club Inc., Joan Mcllravey, Cherry Spagnola and Rob Colvin
Respondents
INTERIM DECISION
Adjudicator: David Muir
Indexed as: Griffith v. Ajax-Pickering Dolphins Minor Football Club
1These are two Applications filed December 22nd 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 which are due 35 days after they received the applicants’ Applications.
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 virtually 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 Interim Decision, a list of available dates for mediation in June 2009.
5I am not seized of these matters.
Dated at Toronto, this 2nd day of March, 2009.
“Signed by”
David Muir
Vice-chair