What is vexatious pleading?
Yukon, Canada
The following excerpt is from North America Construction (1993) Ltd. v., 2019 YKSC 42 (CanLII):
A pleading is vexatious under this Rule where it is groundless or manifestly futile, not in an intelligible form, or instituted without any reasonable grounds or for an ulterior purpose: McDiarmid v. Yukon (Government of), 2014 YKSC 31 (at para. 15).
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