Can an application to amend remedy deficiencies in the original complaint?

British Columbia, Canada


The following excerpt is from Mandryk v. Anmore, 2013 BCHRT 279 (CanLII):

I accept the authorities on which the respondent relies, as establishing that an application to amend may not remedy deficiencies in the original complaint, identified in the application to dismiss, so as to present a “moving target”: Pausch v. School District No. 34, 2008 BCHRT 154.

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