The plaintiff in a certified class action moved to amend the class definition to include participants in a Sea Cadets program, arguing that new evidence showed they were integrated with the DASH program and thus similarly exposed to the alleged abuser.
The Federal Court dismissed the motion, finding that the new evidence did not provide some basis in fact to conclude that the sea cadets were abused or otherwise support the proposed expansion, as it merely showed administrative integration without expanding the evidentiary basis for the abuse claims.
