CITATION: Canadian Union of Public Employees, Local 5001 v. University Health Network, 2020 ONSC 3046
COURT FILE NO.: DC 765/18 and 788/18
DATE: 20200514
SUPERIOR COURT OF JUSTICE - DIVISIONAL COURT - ONTARIO
RE: Canadian Union of Public Employees, Local 5001 v. University Health Network
BEFORE: D.L. Corbett J.
COUNSEL: Amanda Montague-Reinholdt and Saranjit Singh Cheema for the Applicant CUPE Local 5001
Steven Shamie and Julia Nanos for the Respondent UHN
CASE MANAGEMENT ENDORSEMENT
[1] This endorsement reflects a case management conference conducted by teleconference on May 14, 2020.
[2] These applications for judicial review from two decisions of Arbitrator Fishbein (2018 110056 and 2018 117000) will proceed on June 19, 2020, for an estimated 3.0 hours, before a panel of three judges of the Divisional Court.
[3] These applications for judicial review 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.
[4] Neither counsel nor the court will gown for the hearing. Instead, business attire is required for anyone with a speaking role in the hearing. All parties shall ensure that they participate in the videoconference from appropriate surroundings and that they take reasonable steps to reduce the risk of interruption or disturbance of the hearing.
[5] 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 12 noon, June 5, 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 version of cases. The only exceptions to this principle are authorities not available on, such as excerpts from textbooks, foreign law, or Canadian decisions not reported on: 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 on, such as excerpts from textbooks, foreign law, or Canadian decisions not reported on: 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. The court does not open costs materials until the conclusion of the hearing.
(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 June 5, 2020, except that compendiums for oral argument, counsel sheets and costs materials may be uploaded by June 17, 2020.
[6] If counsel believe there are points from the case management conference that are not reflected in this endorsement, they should so advise the court by email as soon as they can.
[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: May 14, 2020