In Lawrence v. International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) Local 773, the Court of Appeal states that a request for a representation order to sue a trade union under r. 12.08 can be a request to correct a misnomer. There was a dissent from Justice Hourigan:
[51] Worse, the method chosen to achieve that result is ill-suited for its purpose. The motion judge found that the order the respondent sought was properly characterized as a motion to correct an error in the title of proceedings under r. 5.04(2). In my view, she erred in so finding. This is not a misnomer case, as there is no question that Local 773 was correctly named. This is a case where there has been non-compliance with a statutory requirement and a new party has been added. One need only look to the form of the order granted by the motion judge. She did not make an order under r. 5.04(2); rather she made a representation order.