HUMAN RIGHTS TRIBUNAL OF ONTARIO
B E T W E E N:
Donna Truax
Applicant
-and-
Midland Police Services Board
Respondent
DECISION
Adjudicator: Geneviève Debané
Indexed as: Truax v. Midland Police Services Board
APPEARANCES
Donna Truax, Applicant
No one appearing
Midland Police Services Board, Respondent
Patricia Murray, Counsel
1This is an Application filed under s. 34 of the Human Rights Code, R.S.O. 1990, c. H.19, as amended (the “Code”).
2On November 19, 2012, a Notice of Summary Hearing was sent to the parties advising that the summary hearing would commence at 9:30 a.m. on March 1, 2013. The Notice of Summary Hearing also advised the parties how to connect to the teleconference.
3The summary hearing was scheduled pursuant to the Case Assessment Direction dated October 26, 2012 (the “CAD”). In this CAD the Tribunal directed that the applicant should proceed to make submission first to explain why the Application should not be dismissed as having no reasonable prospect of success.
4On March 1, 2013 the applicant did not call in nor participate in the summary hearing. As is customary, the Tribunal waited until 10 a.m. At 10:00 a.m., the applicant was still not present.
5I was satisfied at the hearing that the applicant had received notice of the summary hearing and that this was sent to the address provided by the applicant in her Application. In the absence of the applicant or any explanation for her failure to attend the hearing, I dismissed the Application as abandoned.
ORDER
6The Application is dismissed.
Dated at Toronto, this 1st day of March, 2013.
“signed by”
Geneviève Debané
Vice-chair