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Motions for severance, adjournment, and evidentiary directions dismissed in securities enforcement proceeding.
The Ontario Securities Commission heard several procedural motions in a section 127(10) proceeding against the respondents.
The panel dismissed a respondent's motion to sever his case, finding substantial commonality in the allegations and no undue prejudice.
The panel also dismissed requests to vary the severance order and to adjourn the hearing pending an appeal.
Staff's motion for directions on the scope of admissible evidence was dismissed, with the panel declining to review witness statements a priori but cautioning against re-litigating matters decided in U.S. proceedings.
A motion to call a specific witness was also dismissed.
