Kara Flanagan v. Diversified Global Asset Management Corporation, 2011 HRTO 593

HUMAN RIGHTS TRIBUNAL OF ONTARIO

B E T W E E N:

Kara Flanagan

Applicant

-and-

Diversified Global Asset Management Corporation

Respondent

INTERIM decision

Adjudicator: Mary Truemner

Date: March 24, 2011

Citation: 2011 HRTO 593

Indexed as: Flanagan v. Diversified Global Asset Management

1This Interim Decision addresses a letter faxed by the applicant’s counsel to the Tribunal on March 23, 2011. In it, she advised that the parties have reached a settlement, but will not be able to execute the Minutes of Settlement prior to the first day of the hearing scheduled for March 24, 2011. She states that she expects that the applicant will withdraw the Application “in short order, [but] in an abundance of caution, both parties are requesting that the Tribunal adjourn the… hearing dates for the time being.”

2Neither party appeared at the hearing which was scheduled to commence today. Having not been granted an adjournment of the hearing the parties ought to have attended at the Tribunal to speak to the adjournment Request.

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 the circumstances, the hearing scheduled for today is adjourned. The parties are directed to advise the Tribunal of the status of the Application as soon as possible and in any event by March 28, 2011. If the Application is not resolved, the parties are directed to provide their available dates for a hearing in May and June to the Registrar by March 28, 2011. Any future request to adjourn rescheduled hearing dates on the basis the parties are near settlement will not be granted.