Is it an abuse of the court’s process for a party to bring multiple legal proceedings against the same party in the same matter?
Ontario, Canada
The following excerpt is from Bank of Montreal v. Allen, 2011 ONSC 3678 (CanLII):
Multiple legal proceedings against the same party in respect of essentially the same subject matter is an abuse of the court’s process. In the case of Goodman v. Rumm, [2007] O.J. No. 3494, Kiteley J. held that “It would be an abuse of the process of the court to allow parallel proceedings for strategic reasons.”
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