What is the effect of estoppel on a plaintiff's claim?
British Columbia, Canada
The following excerpt is from Ahluwalia v Richmond Taxi Co. Holdings Ltd., 2019 BCSC 2189 (CanLII):
Pleas of cause of action estoppel apply, except in special cases, not only to the claims upon which the court was actually required by the parties to pronounce judgment, but to every claim that properly belonged to the subject of the litigation and which the parties, exercising reasonable diligence, might have brought forward at that time: Henderson v. Henderson (1843), All E.R. Rep. 378.
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