Stanely Czerniak v. Ontario (Community Safety and Correctional Services), 2011 HRTO 1674

HUMAN RIGHTS TRIBUNAL OF ONTARIO

B E T W E E N:

Stanely Czerniak Applicant

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Her Majesty the Queen in Right of Ontario as represented by the Minister of Community Safety and Correctional Services & Jay Hope Respondents

INTERIM decision

Adjudicator: Douglas Sanderson

Date: September 9, 2011

Citation: 2011 HRTO 1674

Indexed as: Czerniak v. Ontario (Community Safety and Correctional Services)

wRITTEN SUBMISSIONS

Stanley Czerniak, Applicant ) John Villellas , Representative

Her Majesty the Queen in Right ) Of Ontario as represented by ) the Minister of Community Safety ) Joseph Jordana, Counsel and Correctional Services ) & Jay Hope, Respondents )

1This Interim Decision addresses a Request by the applicant made September 7, 2011 to adjourn the Conference Call Hearing scheduled for September 9, 2011. The respondents does not oppose the Request to adjourn.

2The applicant’s representative explained that the applicant will be undergoing a medical procedure on September 9, 2011 and that the procedure cannot be rescheduled. Consequently, the applicant would not be able to attend the Conference Call if it proceeded as scheduled.

3The Tribunal’s Practice Direction on Scheduling of Hearings and Mediations, Rescheduling Requests and Requests for Adjournments provides that requests to reschedule must be made within 14 days of receiving the Confirmation of Hearing and that outside that time adjournments will be granted only in extraordinary circumstances.

4In these circumstances I am satisfied that the request for a brief adjournment is justified. The hearing scheduled for September 9, 2011 is adjourned. The parties are directed to provide their available dates for a hearing in the next twelve weeks to the Registrar within 10 days of the date of this Interim Decision.