Maria Fragkopoulos v. George Meditskos, 2016 HRTO 919

HUMAN RIGHTS TRIBUNAL OF ONTARIO

B E T W E E N:

Maria Fragkopoulos

Applicant

-and-

George Meditskos

Respondent

INTERIM DECISION

Adjudicator: Jennifer Khurana
Date: July 12, 2016
Citation: 2016 HRTO 919
Indexed as: Fragkopoulos v. Meditskos

1This is a Contravention of Settlement Application (“Application”) filed under s.45.9(3) of the Human Rights Code, R.S.O. 1990, c. H.19, as amended (the “Code”). The applicant alleges that the respondent failed to pay general damages agreed to in Minutes of Settlement signed by the parties on September 8, 2015 in settlement of a previous Application.

2This Interim Decision addresses the respondent’s second request to adjourn the hearing scheduled for July 14, 2016. The respondent previously filed a request to adjourn the hearing on June 29, 2016 which I denied in Interim Decision 2016 HRTO 893.

Adjournment

3This matter was originally scheduled for a hearing on May 11, 2016. The respondent filed a timely request to reschedule the matter and the parties were sent a new Notice of Hearing on May 3, 2016 confirming that the hearing would be rescheduled to July 14, 2016.

4On July 11, 2016 the respondent filed a Request for Order During Proceedings (“Request”) asking the Tribunal to postpone the hearing for what appear to be the same reasons that motivated his June 29, 2016 Request. Both Requests ask the Tribunal to adjourn the Application sine die pending the conclusion of a civil claim against the applicant, her spouse and a third person. That claim has been ongoing since 2014 and the respondent submits its outcome is relevant to the Application.

5In my Interim Decision I did not find exceptional reasons to justify adjourning the hearing. As the respondent’s latest Request appears to raise the same issues as the June 29, 2016 Request, the applicant is not required to file a response to the second Request.

6I do not find anything in the respondent’s July 11, 2016 Request that would persuade me to change my findings.

7The parties are directed to attend the hearing on the date already specified by the Tribunal and to be prepared to call evidence and make submissions.

ORDER

8The respondent’s Request to adjourn the hearing is denied. The hearing will proceed as scheduled on July 14, 2016.