The court convened a case conference for four related product liability actions involving fires allegedly caused by defective ventilation units.
After four years of case management, the court discovered that counsel for the defendant had failed to disclose numerous other actions across the province involving the same parties and identical issues, including one that had already proceeded to trial.
Citing counsel's lack of candor and repeated failure to comply with court orders, the case management judge struck the actions from the trial list and declined to continue case managing them.
