Court File and Parties
CITATION: Bradley v. Ontario College of Teachers, 2020 ONSC 3877
COURT FILE NO.: 504/19
DATE: 20200622
SUPERIOR COURT OF JUSTICE - DIVISIONAL COURT - ONTARIO
RE: Bradley v. Ontario College of Teachers
BEFORE: D.L. Corbett J.
COUNSEL: Jerry Raso and Ms Mesenberg for the Appellant
Christine Wadsworth and Noam Uri for the Respondent
CASE MANAGEMENT ENDORSEMENT
[1] This endorsement reflects a case management conference conducted by teleconference on June 22, 2020.
[2] This appeal from the decision of the Ontario College of Teachers dated October 13, 2019, shall proceed by ZOOM videoconference on July 9, 2020, before a panel of three judges of the Divisional Court for an estimated 1.0 hour. This case shall proceed first on July 9th, followed by the longer appeal scheduled before the court on July 9th. Counsel will be provided with the link for the videoconference in due course, by email.
[3] Neither counsel nor the court shall gown for the hearing.
[4] All appeal materials have been served already. Counsel for the Appellant shall establish an electronic drop box for all appeal materials and shall provide the court with the link and password for the drop box by June 30, 2020.
(a) Documents should be labelled in a manner that identifies them clearly for the court so that it is not necessary to open the document to understand what it is. Pages should be numbered sequentially within each pdf. If this is not practical, given the current state of the documents, then individual documents should be uploaded to the drop box in pdf form, so that each document is clearly labelled, enabling the court to find documents quickly during the course of the hearing.
(b) Books of authorities containing the full text of authorities should not be uploaded to the drop box. The parties may, but are not required to, file hyperlinked versions of their factums. If they do not do so, they should file briefs of authorities consisting of a list of their cases hyperlinked, rather than full-text copies of their cases. Only unreported authorities should be filed full-text.
(c) Each party shall file a counsel sheet setting out the name(s) of all counsel appearing at the hearing and the estimated time for submissions.
(d) The parties shall file their agreement on the disposition of costs, or, if the parties have not agreed as to costs, then each party shall file its bill of costs and costs outline and any brief supporting materials relied upon in respect to costs. The court does not open costs materials until the conclusion of the hearing.
(e) All parties are permitted to (but are not required to) file the following additional documents (in addition to documents permitted under the Rules): versions of their previously filed factums with hyperlinks to cases.
[5] The appeal concerns the penalty imposed by a discipline panel of the College. The panel declined to accept the parties’ joint submission on penalty and instead imposed a higher penalty. The College does not oppose the appeal. The time estimate for oral argument is considered generous given all of these circumstances.
[6] As the parties were advised during the teleconference, all Divisional Court cases are being case-managed during COVID-19. If any matter arises that will affect this appeal proceeding, as scheduled, on July 17, 2020, the parties should arrange a further case management teleconference with the court.
[7] The court has endorsed its fiat on this endorsement this day; the unsigned version distributed to the parties today has the authority and effect of the signed version, a copy of which will be provided to the parties in due course after the suspension of ordinary court operations is lifted.
D.L. Corbett J.
Date: June 22, 2020