What is the test for striking a pleading in a family law case?
Ontario, Canada
The following excerpt is from Lopez v Maldonado, 2016 ONSC 6278 (CanLII):
And at paragraph 31: In family law cases, pleadings should only be struck, and trial participation denied, in exceptional circumstances and where no other remedy would suffice: Purcaru v. Purcaru, 2010 ONCA 92 (CanLII), 75 R.F.L. (6th), at para. 47. The exceptional nature of this remedy is rooted in the significance of the adversarial system…
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