Child and Family Services Review Board
Between:
AB Applicant
-and-
North Eastern Ontario Family and Children’s Services Respondent
Decision
Adjudicator: Caroline Sand Date: May 30, 2025 Citation: 2025 CFSRB 69 Indexed As: AB v North Eastern Ontario Family and Children’s Services (CYFSA s.120)
Introduction
1This is an Application filed under section 120 of the Child, Youth and Family Services Act, 2017, S.O. 2017, c.14, Sched.1, (the "Act").
Issue
2Has the Applicant abandoned the Application?
Result
3The Applicant has abandoned the Application and it must be dismissed.
Analysis
The Applicant did not attend the May 21, 2025 Pre-Hearing
4On May 21, 2025, the Applicant was not present at the scheduled start time of 10:30 a.m. Shortly after 10:30 a.m., a CFSRB Case Processing Officer ("CPO") left the Applicant a voice message and emailed her, requesting that she attend the pre-hearing. The CPO provided the Zoom link in the email. The Applicant did not join. The CFSRB Case Processing Officer confirmed that the email communications to the Applicant, including the Notice of Pre-Hearing sent on May 14, 2025, were not returned as undeliverable.
5The Applicant did not contact the CFSRB following her non-attendance at the pre-hearing to describe any technical difficulties or other circumstances that prevented her attendance. I conclude that she chose not to attend.
The Applicant did not respond to the May 21, 2025 Pre-Hearing Report
6On May 21, 2025, the CFSRB issued a Pre-Hearing Report which directed the Applicant to tell the CFSRB by no later than May 23, 2025, if she wished to pursue her Application and why she did not attend the pre-hearing.
7In the Pre-Hearing Report, the CFSRB provided notice to the Applicant that if she did not contact the CFSRB by May 23, 2025, the Application may be dismissed as abandoned.
8The Pre-Hearing Report was sent to the email address provided by the Applicant and was not returned as undeliverable. I conclude that she received the Report.
9The Applicant did not contact the CFSRB by May 23, 2025, or at any time up to today. I conclude that she has abandoned her Application and it must be dismissed.
Order
10The Application is dismissed.
Confidentiality Order
11Pursuant to Rules 9.3 and 9.4 of the CFSRB’s Rules of Procedure, parties and their representatives must not use, share, discuss or disclose any CFSRB documents or decisions, or any other documents or information provided or used in this Application, with anyone including through the media or online. The CFSRB prohibits the use of any of this information for any purpose outside of the CFSRB’s proceedings, except with an order of the Court or the CFSRB, as appropriate.
Dated at Toronto, May 30, 2025.
Caroline Sand
__________________________________ Caroline Sand Vice-Chair