HUMAN RIGHTS TRIBUNAL OF ONTARIO
B E T W E E N:
S.K. by his next friend A.K.
Applicant
-and-
Toronto Anti-Violence Intervention Strategy and Kevin Sarjoo
Respondents
INTERIM DECISION
Adjudicator: Eric Whist
Indexed as: S.K. v. Toronto Anti-Violence Intervention Strategy
1This is an Application filed on April 3, 2009, under section 34 of Part IV of the Human Rights Code, R.S.O. 1990, c. H.19, as amended (the “Code”). In an Interim Decision dated June 3, 2010, 2010 HRTO 1270, the Tribunal granted a request by the respondents for an extension of time to file their Response. The Tribunal decided that the respondents would have 21 days following the disposition of the respondents’ application to the Provincial Court and the receipt of a Court order, or 45 days from the date of this Interim Decision, whichever first occured, to file their Response.
2In a letter to the Tribunal dated July 13, 2010 the respondents requested a further extension of time to file their Response on the grounds that a Court order had not been issued as yet and they would not be able to comply with the 45 day limit set by the Tribunal which would be July 19, 2010. In a letter to the Tribunal dated July 14, 2010 the respondents indicated that the Provincial Court had contacted the respondents to state that the Court order had been signed by the presiding judge and was being sent to the respondents. The respondents requested 21 days from the date of the receipt of the Order in order to file their Response.
3Under the circumstances the Tribunal grants this request. The Tribunal accepts that the further delay in filing the response is related to the delay in receiving the Court order and that the Response will be filed not long after the original 45 day limit. The Tribunal sees no prejudice to the applicant in allowing this further extension.
4I am not seized of this matter.
Dated at Toronto, this 16th day of July, 2010.
“Signed by”
Eric Whist
Vice-chair