What are the requirements for an offer to settle a claim in a personal injury action?
Ontario, Canada
The following excerpt is from R. v. Delchev, 2015 ONCA 381 (CanLII):
The appellant takes issue with the third of these requirements. He argues the offer was not made for the purpose of achieving settlement or compromise, but rather “with some other object in view and from wrong motives”: Pirie v. Wyld (1886), 11 O.R. 422 (H.C.).
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