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Application for judicial review dismissed; HRTO reasonably found employee failed to cooperate in accommodation process.
The applicant sought judicial review of a Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario decision dismissing her claim that her employer failed to reasonably accommodate her disability.
The HRTO had found that the employer attempted to accommodate the applicant, but she failed to participate in the cooperative accommodation process.
The Divisional Court dismissed the application, finding that the adjudicator made no error of law and reached a reasonable conclusion supported by the evidence.
The court upheld a conviction for uttering threats after a visually impaired man told a transit supervisor he would kick his ass.
The appellant, Samir Ibrahim, appealed his convictions for uttering a threat to cause bodily harm and breaching a recognizance.
The appeal argued that the trial court erred in finding that the words uttered by the visually-impaired appellant over a cellphone constituted a threat.
The Superior Court of Justice, sitting as a Summary Conviction Appeal Court, dismissed the appeal, upholding the trial judge's findings on the words uttered and their interpretation as a threat in context, as well as the appellant's intent to intimidate.
