Court and Parties

CITATION: Democracy Watch v. Ontario Integrity Commissioner, 2020 ONSC 4264

COURT FILE NO.: DC 19/548

DATE: 20200710

SUPERIOR COURT OF JUSTICE - DIVISIONAL COURT - ONTARIO

RE: Democracy Watch v. Ontario Integrity Commissioner

BEFORE: D.L. Corbett J.

COUNSEL: Rebecca Shoom – Applicant Justin Safayeni and Stephen Aylward – Respondent

Case Management Endorsement

[1] This is an endorsement following case management teleconferences on May 22, 2020 and on June 29, 2020.

[2] This application for judicial review arising out of the respondent’s Report Re: The Honourable Doug Ford, Premier of Ontario dated March 20, 2019, shall proceed before a three member panel of the Divisional Court on September 28, 2020.

[3] The parties have advised that AG Ontario has decided not to participate in this application.

[4] Unless the court subsequently advises the parties otherwise, this application will be heard by video conference. ZOOM technology will be used. Further details about the videoconference will be provided to the parties subsequently by email.

[5] Neither counsel nor the court will gown for the hearing. Instead, business attire is required for anyone with a speaking role in the hearing.

[6] Respondent’s counsel shall provide a password-protected download-only electronic drop box from which materials may be downloaded by the court and shall provide the court with the URL and password by August 28, 2020.

(a) All documents other than factums, counsel sheets, bills of costs, and costs outlines shall be uploaded to the drop box in pdf format.

(b) Documents should be labelled in a manner that identifies them clearly for members of the panel 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.

(c) Factums are to be filed in Word and pdf versions. Where possible, the factums should contain hyperlinks for authorities and, if possible, hyperlinks to a “Factum Compendium”, described below.

(d) Books of authorities containing the full text of authorities should not be uploaded to the drop box. However, citations to cases in the factums are to provide, if possible, a hyperlink to the online version of cases. The only exceptions to this principle are authorities not available online, such as excerpts from textbooks, foreign law, or Canadian decisions not reported online: these should be collected in a small brief of unreported authorities and filed electronically.

(e) Parties may file a “Factum Compendium” containing single pages or brief portions of cases cited, and brief portions of evidence from the record referenced in the factum, hyperlinked from the factum. Where portions of cases are included in a compendium, the title of proceedings and headnote should be included as well. Where portions of the record are included in a Factum Compendium, the first page of the document and identification of where it may be found in the record should also be provided. The only exceptions to this principle are authorities not available online, such as excerpts from textbooks, foreign law, or Canadian decisions not reported online: these should be collected in a brief of authorities and filed electronically.

(f) 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.

(g) 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.

(h) All parties are permitted to (but are not required to) file the following additional documents (in addition to documents permitted under the Rules):

(i) Versions of their previously filed factums with hyperlinks to cases and/or evidence;

(ii) Factum Compendiums, described above; and

(iii) Compendiums for oral argument, containing excerpts of evidence and authorities to which counsel intends to refer in oral argument.

(i) All documents for use in the hearing are to be uploaded to the drop box by August 28, 2020, except that compendiums for oral argument, counsel sheets and costs materials may be uploaded by September 24, 2020.

[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: July 10, 2020