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41482

Laksaman Fernando Mihindukulasuriya v. Aramark Canada Limited

(Ontario) (Civil) (By Leave)

Docket

Judgments on applications for leave to appeal are rendered by the Court, but are not necessarily unanimous.

List of proceedings
Date Proceeding Filed By
(if applicable)
2025-05-02 Close file on Leave
2025-05-01 Judgment of the Court on the application for leave to appeal, The motion for an extension of time to serve and file the application for leave to appeal is granted. The motion for an extension of time to serve and file the response to the application for leave to appeal and to the motion for an extension of time to serve and file the application for leave to appeal is granted. The application for leave to appeal from the judgment of the Court of Appeal for Ontario, Number COA-24-OM-0094, dated April 5, 2024, is dismissed with costs.
Dismissed, with costs
2025-05-01 Decision on motion to extend time, See decision on application.
2025-05-01 Decision on motion to extend time to file and /or serve the leave application, See decision on application.
2025-03-31 All materials on application for leave submitted to the Judges, for consideration by the Court
2025-03-31 Submission of motion to extend time, to file a response, for consideration by the Court
2025-03-31 Submission of motion to extend time to file and/ or serve the leave application, for consideration by the Court
2024-12-10 Affidavit, in support of motion, (Printed version filed on 2024-12-23) Aramark Canada Limited
2024-12-10 Motion to extend time, (Book Form), to file a response
Missing:
-Proof of service (rec'd 2024-12-11), Completed on: 2024-12-11, (Printed version filed on 2024-12-23)
Aramark Canada Limited
2024-12-10 Certificate (on limitations to public access), 23A
Need amended version (rec'd 2024-12-10), (Printed version filed on 2024-12-23)
Aramark Canada Limited
2024-12-10 Response to the motion to extend the time to file and / or serve the leave application, (Letter Form), (Included in the respondent's response on the application for leave to appeal), Missing motion to extend time (rec'd 2024-12-10), Completed on: 2024-12-11, (Printed version filed on 2024-12-23) Aramark Canada Limited
2024-12-10 Respondent's response on the application for leave to appeal, (Letter Form), Missing
-Motion to extend time (rec'd 2024-12-10)
-Amended Form 23A (rec'd 2024-12-10), Completed on: 2024-12-11, (Printed version filed on 2024-12-23)
Aramark Canada Limited
2024-10-21 Correspondence received from, about Court orders Laksaman Fernando Mihindukulasuriya
2024-10-11 Supplemental document, Information about condition Laksaman Fernando Mihindukulasuriya
2024-10-04 Motion to extend the time to file and or serve the application for leave to appeal, (Book Form), Completed on: 2024-10-18 Laksaman Fernando Mihindukulasuriya
2024-10-03 Letter advising parties of an incomplete application for leave to appeal, File opened on Oct. 3, 2024
2024-07-30 Certificate (on limitations to public access), Public access to information form Laksaman Fernando Mihindukulasuriya
2024-07-30 Application for leave to appeal, (Book Form), Missing:
-Amended cover page indicating coordinates of the other parties (rec'd 2024-10-04)
-Amended notice of application (indicating the correct name of court appealed from and the coordinates of the other party) (rec'd 2024-10-08)
-Amended memorandum of arguments (including Part IV and V + signature) (rec'd 2024-10-08)
-CA Order (N/A)
-Trial Court judgement (rec'd 2024-10-08)
- Trial court Order (N/A)
-Proof of service (rec'd 2024-10-09)
-Motion to extend time (rec'd 2024-10-04)
, Completed on: 2024-10-21
Laksaman Fernando Mihindukulasuriya

Parties

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Main parties

Main parties - Appellants
Name Role Status
Mihindukulasuriya, Laksaman Fernando Applicant Active

v.

Main parties - Respondents
Name Role Status
Aramark Canada Limited Respondent Active

Counsel

Party: Mihindukulasuriya, Laksaman Fernando

This party is not represented by counsel.

Party: Aramark Canada Limited

Counsel
Laura J. Freitag
Filion Wakely Thorup Angeletti LLP
333 Bay Street
Suite 2500
Toronto, Ontario
M5H 2R2
Telephone: (416) 408-5505
FAX: (416) 408-4814
Email: lfreitag@filion.on.ca

Summary

Keywords

Human rights — Judicial review — Discrimination — Whether an extension of time to seek leave to appeal should have been granted.

Summary

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The applicant had sought to commence an application for judicial review of a 2016 decision of the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario more than five years later. His motion for an extension of time to seek judicial review was dismissed. The applicant’s subsequent motion for an extension of time to seek leave to appeal was also dismissed.

Lower court rulings

July 7, 2022
Ontario Superior Court of Justice

2023 ONSC 4625

Application and motion for an extension of time dismissed

April 5, 2024
Court of Appeal for Ontario

COA-24-OM-0094

Application for an extension of time to seek leave to appeal dismissed

Memorandums of argument on application for leave to appeal

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Factums on appeal

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Date modified: 2025-05-03