In a WESA s. 60 wills variation dispute, the court ordered the deceased plaintiff’s estate to disclose a statement of assets and liabilities as of death, with supporting documents.
The court dismissed an application to compel the Ghahramani parties to serve an affidavit of documents, finding no evidence of omitted relevant documents.
Federal Court dismissed Pharmascience’s Rule 51 appeal and upheld an order compelling production of its financial statements in a section 8 damages action.
Patented medicines (notice of compliance) regulations
The court partly granted a document-production application in a confidential-information dispute, narrowing overbroad requests and ordering limited disclosure and discovery answers.
Application for retroactive child support disclosure dismissed. The court found the broader December application procedurally improper and the October application disproportionate and insufficiently grounded under Rule 9-1.
Documents that are not HRM documents (Provincial Panel files) are not compelled from HRM and should be sought from the Province via FOI; HRM must comply with the existing Production Order to produce specified categories (including the Stantec Future Serviced Communities Background Studies) up to the motion cutoff date; limited further productions were ordered (confirmation whether Annapolis lands appear in the Highway 102 West Corridor map and production of growth projections shared with Halifax Water and Halifax Transit 2015-present); exhaustive searches for historic texts/Teams/messages acr…
The court dismissed a pre-trial disclosure application for related companies’ financial records, finding the request irrelevant, disproportionate, and prejudicial.
The court granted the defendant production of 2009 clinical records about a prior ACL injury, finding a real connection to prognosis and future damages.
The court largely granted a pre-trial document production application tied to a disputed profit-sharing agreement, finding most requested records relevant to profit calculation.
The court ordered Economical to disclose 419 denied claim files, subject to redaction, because they could help test the reliability of acid-damage screening.