Michael S. Richards

The applicant filed a human rights application alleging discrimination in employment and services.

The respondents raised several preliminary issues, including timeliness, parallel civil actions, prior settlements with releases, and whether certain individual respondents should be removed.

The Tribunal ordered a one-day preliminary hearing to address these issues, including whether the application should be dismissed or deferred under the Human Rights Code.

In an interim decision regarding a human rights application, the Tribunal addressed several preliminary requests.

The Tribunal denied the applicant's requests to reinstate the Canadian Federation of Students and to add a new individual respondent, finding no compelling reasons and noting it would unduly complicate the proceedings.

The Tribunal granted the respondents' request to remove several individual respondents, as there was no compelling juridical reason to keep them given the corporate respondent's vicarious liability.

Finally, the Tribunal found the applicant breached Rule 3.3 by using documents disclosed in this proceeding to commence separate Small Claims Court actions, warning that further abuse of process could result in dismissal.

The applicant filed a human rights application alleging discrimination in employment on the basis of citizenship and place of origin.

The respondents requested early dismissal on the basis that the Tribunal lacked jurisdiction and the application was untimely.

The Tribunal found that the applicant's complaint was essentially a dispute over a verbal contract for services provided in the Middle East, with no factual nexus linking the alleged unfair treatment to a prohibited ground of discrimination.

The application was dismissed for lack of jurisdiction.

The applicant filed an application under section 34 of the Human Rights Code.

A hearing was scheduled, but the applicant failed to appear.

The Tribunal confirmed that the applicant had received notice of the hearing and had not requested an adjournment.

As it is the applicant's responsibility to attend and provide evidence in support of the allegations, the Tribunal dismissed the application due to the applicant's failure to appear.