Moishe Reiter

The Ontario College of Teachers brought a motion seeking leave to withdraw allegations of professional misconduct against the member.

The member consented to the withdrawal.

Pursuant to section 4.1 of the Statutory Powers Procedure Act, the Discipline Committee granted the motion and authorized the withdrawal of the allegations without a hearing.

The appellant appealed the order of the motion judge striking out his pleading and granting a divorce judgment and related relief.

The Court of Appeal found that the motion judge properly struck the pleading based on the appellant's non-compliance with previous court orders.

The Court also found no palpable and overriding error in the granting of the divorce judgment and related relief.

The appeal was dismissed with costs fixed at $3,000.

The applicant sought leave to appeal a decision dismissing disciplinary charges against several police officers.

The respondents brought a preliminary motion arguing that the applicant failed to serve them with proper notice of the appeal within the 30-day period required by the Commission's Rules of Practice.

The Commission found that the applicant's attempts to serve the officers by faxing the Chief of Police and leaving copies with a student at police headquarters did not constitute proper service.

As the applicant had sufficient information to effect proper service but failed to do so, the preliminary motion was granted and the application for leave to appeal was denied.

The applicant sought leave to appeal a Hearing Officer's decision dismissing disciplinary charges against several police officers.

The respondents raised preliminary motions arguing that the chief of police's prosecutor was not a proper party to the appeal and that the appeal was filed outside the 30-day limitation period under section 70(1) of the Police Services Act.

The Ontario Civilian Police Commission held that the prosecutor is a proper party to the appeal.

The Commission also found that the appeal was filed within the 30-day period, as the time began to run when the applicant received written notice of the decision, not when he was verbally informed.

The preliminary motions to dismiss were denied.