What is the test for adding a defendant to a defendant list?
Ontario, Canada
The following excerpt is from General v 515679 Ontario Limited, 2016 ONSC 45 (CanLII):
The case of Ratnakumar v. Dickie’s No Frills, [2015] O.J. No. 1548 (Div. Ct.), sets out the three-part test to be considered by the court when exercising its discretion to add proposed defendants.
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