In an oppression application under the Ontario Business Corporations Act, the applicants sought interim relief authorizing a corporation to proceed with litigation against a third party and to amend an earlier order to permit them to sign corporate cheques to fund litigation and reimburse certain expenses.
The respondent opposed the motion and brought a cross‑motion seeking payment or preservation of alleged shareholder allowances and corporate expense reimbursements.
The court held that only limited interim relief was appropriate because the substantive issues in the oppression proceeding could not be determined at this stage.
The court authorized a $65,000 corporate payment to fund independent counsel for the litigation but preserved the existing order requiring dual signatures for other corporate payments.
Other reimbursement claims were deferred to the hearing of the oppression application.
