Rebecca Bush

The applicant filed a human rights application alleging sexual harassment, reprisal, and discrimination.

The Toronto Professional Fire Fighters' Association, Local 3888, filed a Request to Intervene to address non-monetary remedies and issues related to the collective agreement.

The respondents opposed the intervention.

The Tribunal granted the union intervenor status, noting its established practice of allowing a bargaining agent to intervene in applications alleging discrimination in employment.

The applicant filed an Application for Contravention of Settlement alleging the respondents failed to comply with a previous Tribunal order to pay $1,000.

The Tribunal found that the issue of the breach of settlement had already been finally determined in the previous decision, rendering the Tribunal functus officio.

The Tribunal further noted that enforcement of its orders must be pursued through the Superior Court of Justice pursuant to section 19 of the Statutory Powers Procedure Act.

The application was dismissed for lack of jurisdiction.

The applicant filed an application alleging the respondents contravened Minutes of Settlement by failing to pay $1,000 within the agreed four-week period.

The respondents missed the deadline by approximately one week due to their counsel's unexpected medical leave, but promptly offered to deliver the funds upon realizing the error.

The applicant refused the funds and sought to have the settlement rescinded.

The Tribunal found the delay was a trivial breach caused by inadvertence that resulted in no significant harm to the applicant.

The Tribunal declined to rescind the settlement and ordered the respondents to pay the original $1,000 settlement amount.

The complainant and the Commission brought a Request for Order During Proceedings to add further officers as personal respondents.

Following discussions, the Chief of Police undertook to accept liability in the event any liability is found against the named or proposed officers.

Consequently, the parties agreed to withdraw the request, remove all named individual respondents, and add the Chief of Police as a respondent.

The Tribunal ordered the style of cause amended accordingly.

The applicant filed a human rights application alleging discrimination and unprovoked physical assault by police.

He subsequently commenced a civil action seeking damages for assault, battery, and Charter violations, but not for Code infringements.

The Tribunal held that the application was not barred by s. 34(11) of the Code because the civil action did not seek a remedy for a Code infringement.

However, the Tribunal deferred the application pending the outcome of the civil action to avoid concurrent proceedings and inconsistent decisions.