What are the grounds that this application is an abuse of process?

Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada


The following excerpt is from Sodexo Canada Limited v. Hotel Employees and Restaurant Employees International Union, Local 779, 2019 NLSC 192 (CanLII):

The Respondent further states that the entirety of this application is an abuse of process, citing Chutskoff Estate v. Bonora, 2014 ABQB 389. That case sets out characteristics of matters that should be dismissed as an abuse of process, including those that can be described as a collateral attack and actions in which there are other indicia that a legal action is vexatious.

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