{"id":646,"date":"2018-01-17T14:56:15","date_gmt":"2018-01-17T18:56:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/limitations.ca\/?p=646"},"modified":"2018-01-17T14:56:15","modified_gmt":"2018-01-17T18:56:15","slug":"ontario-remember-the-amendment-principles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/limitations.ca\/?p=646","title":{"rendered":"Ontario: remember the amendment principles"},"content":{"rendered":"

Master Muir provides a helpful summary of amendment principles in Concord Adex Inc. v. 20\/20 Management Limited<\/em><\/a>:<\/p>\n

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[<\/a>20]\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0The law in relation to motions seeking leave to amend a pleading is well settled and was not seriously in dispute on this motion. The applicable principles are summarized in my decision in\u00a0Greenwald v. Ridgevale Inc.<\/i>,\u00a02016 ONSC 3031 (CanLII)<\/a>,\u00a02016 ONSC 3031 (Master)<\/span><\/span>. At paragraph 21 of\u00a0Greenwald<\/i>\u00a0I set out those factors as follows:<\/p>\n

\u2022 the amendments must not result in prejudice;<\/p>\n

\u2022 the amendments must be legally tenable;<\/p>\n

\u2022 the amendments must comply with the rules of pleading;<\/p>\n

\u2022 a motion to add a party must meet all of the requirements of a motion under\u00a0Rule 26.01<\/a>;<\/p>\n

\u2022 the addition of the party should relate to the same transaction or occurrence;<\/p>\n

\u2022 the addition of the party should not unduly delay or complicate the hearing;<\/p>\n

\u2022 the addition of a party will not be permitted if it is shown to be an abuse of process.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

It is useful to keep these in mind when considering whether a motion to add a party of the presumptive expiry of the limitation period.<\/p>\n

There is also a reminder that standard of discovery applicable when determining whether to add a proposed defendant after the presumptive expiry of the limitation period is reasonable discovery, not possible discovery:<\/p>\n

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[<\/a>47]\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0With respect to all of these arguments it is important to emphasize that it is reasonable discoverability and not the mere possibility of discovery that triggers a limitation period. See\u00a0Crombie Property Holdings Ltd. v. McColl-Frontenac Inc.<\/i>,\u00a02017 ONCA 16<\/span>\u00a0(CanLII)<\/a>\u00a0at paragraph 35<\/span>; leave to appeal refused, 2017 SCCA No. 85. The proposed defendants appear to be holding the plaintiffs to a standard of perfection. That is simply not the test.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Master Muir provides a helpful summary of amendment principles in Concord Adex Inc. v. 20\/20 Management Limited: [20]\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0The law in relation to motions seeking leave to amend a pleading is well settled and was not seriously in dispute on this motion. The applicable principles are summarized in my decision in\u00a0Greenwald v. Ridgevale Inc.,\u00a02016 … Continue reading Ontario: remember the amendment principles<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[124,170,149,191,388],"class_list":["post-646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ontario","tag-adding-a-party","tag-amendments","tag-fun-with-amendments","tag-limitations-motions","tag-practice-tips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/limitations.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/limitations.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/limitations.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/limitations.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/limitations.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=646"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/limitations.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":647,"href":"https:\/\/limitations.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646\/revisions\/647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/limitations.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/limitations.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/limitations.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}