March 24, 2023
At our weekly Friday meeting, Katrina Taibi discussed the recent decision of the Ontario Superior Court in Li v. Barber, 2023 ONSC 1679. Overview: A motion by the plaintiffs to amend the Statement of Claim, and a motion by a group of defendants to strike the Statement of Claim for no cause of action and […]
December 08, 2021
By Athina Ionita In Falsetto v. Falsetto et al., 2021 ONSC 7964, the plaintiff sought leave to amend the statement of claim. The defendants opposed the plaintiff’s proposed amendments, arguing that the plaintiff was seeking to add new causes of action outside the limitation period, and that the motion would disrupt the litigation timetable and […]
November 10, 2021
By Meryl Rodrigues In a recent Court of Appeal decision, the Court clarifies what constitutes “the close of pleadings” in an action. The appeal in Kawaguchi v. Kawa Investments Inc.[1] arose from a motion wherein the motion judge prevented the plaintiffs/appellants from discontinuing their action against the respondents (three of a number of defendants), and […]
May 05, 2021
By Athina Ionita Andrin Hillsborough Limited v. Eliaszadeh, 2021 ONSC 3229, provides a helpful discussion on pleading bad faith, and the importance of pleading with sufficient clarity. Background This decision relates to the defendants’ motion for leave to amend their Statement of Defence, and to add a Counterclaim. The plaintiff opposed the motion, and also […]
June 15, 2020
The Court of Appeal’s decision in Burns v. RBC Life Insurance Company, 2020 ONCA 347, dealt with a motion decision to strike a statement of claim against two employees of the defendant insurer for disclosing no reasonable cause of action. The plaintiff sued RBC Life in a disability benefits claim. She also sued two RBC […]
April 15, 2020
By Meryl Rodrigues The doctrine of misnomer seems, more often than not, to be quite generously applied to permit litigants to add (or, more accurately, “substitute”) parties to an action, generally well after the expiry of the presumptive two year limitation period. The doctrine permits the amendment of a pleading to reflect that a person […]
