HUMAN RIGHTS TRIBUNAL OF ONTARIO
B E T W E E N:
Jeffrey Stark
Applicant
-and-
The Niagara Parks Commission
Respondent
INTERIM DECISION
Adjudicator: Lorne Slotnick
Date: April 27, 2011
Citation: 2011 HRTO 822
Indexed as: Stark v. Niagara Parks Commission
1By notices dated December 8, 2010 and March 9, 2011, the Tribunal advised the parties of a hearing date of April 29, 2011, for this application, which is to be heard by conference call. The date was set with input from the applicant.
2The Tribunal has received an e-mail message from the Applicant, apparently sent on April 22 (the Good Friday holiday), reading in full as follows: “I am writing to request another date for this hearing. I have had my leave from work revoked for this date due to an emergency.”
3The Tribunal’s Practice Direction on Scheduling of Hearings and Mediations, Rescheduling Requests, and Requests for Adjournments provides that rescheduling requests must be made within 14 days of the Tribunal’s notice of hearing, and that adjournments will only be granted in “extraordinary circumstances.”
4The Applicant has made his request well outside the 14-day period, and has not cited any particulars sufficiently clear enough to reach a conclusion that any extraordinary circumstances exist that would lead the Tribunal to adjourn the hearing. I note that no personal attendance by the applicant is required at a conference call hearing.
5Therefore, the request by the applicant to reschedule the hearing is denied.
Dated at Toronto this 27^th^ day of April, 2011.
“Signed by”
Lorne Slotnick
Member