HUMAN RIGHTS TRIBUNAL OF ONTARIO
B E T W E E N:
Achille Ruffolo
Applicant
-and-
Belair Insurance Company Inc. and Gloria Chabot
Respondents
INTERIM DECISION
Adjudicator: Sherry Liang
Indexed as: Ruffolo v. Belair Insurance Company Inc.
1This is an Application filed under section 34 of Part IV of the Human Rights Code, R.S.O. 1990, c. H.19, as amended (the “Code”). A summary hearing in this matter is scheduled for October 21, 2011, commencing at 9:30 a.m.
2The respondents have requested an adjournment of the summary hearing pending “the filing of a Request for an Order During Proceedings by the Respondents that this Application be dismissed as an abuse of process and the Applicant be declared a vexatious litigator to be brought at the same time (on or before January 31 2012) as in HRTO File Nos. 2010-06072-I, 2010-06409-I and 2010-06916-I”.
3The applicant opposes the adjournment request but provides no submissions.
4Having regard to the material before me, including the Interim Decision in Tribunal File Nos. 2010-06072-I, 2010-06409-I and 2010-06916-I, dated October 18, 2011 (2011 HRTO 1882), as well as the various Case Assessment Directions and Interim Decisions in all these and other Applications filed by this applicant, and which deal with related or overlapping issues, I find it appropriate to grant the request for adjournment.
5The summary hearing in this Application is therefore adjourned pending the filing of the Request by the respondents described above in paragraph 2, on or before January 31, 2012. The Tribunal will determine how to proceed with these Applications following receipt of the Request and Response to the Request, if any
Dated at Toronto this 20th day of October, 2011.
“Signed by”
Sherry Liang
Vice-chair