How have the courts in BC dealt with a motion for summary trial?
British Columbia, Canada
The following excerpt is from International Sausage House Ltd. v. Hammer, 2014 BCSC 1442 (CanLII):
The court should avoid “litigation by slices”, that is, deciding cases piecemeal, granting judgment on specific issues, where the issues are interwoven with other issues left for trial. This use of the summary trial procedure would not be in the interest of justice: N.J. v. Aitken Estate, 2014 BCSC 419 at para. 36, citing Hyrniak v. Mauldin, 2014 SCC 7.
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