The plaintiff moved for leave to deliver and file a Fresh as Amended Statement of Claim to add the Ottawa Police Services Board as a defendant and expand on allegations against the RCMP.
The defendants opposed the amendment and alternatively moved to strike portions of it for disclosing no reasonable cause of action.
The court granted leave to amend the claim, finding no non-compensable prejudice to the defendants.
However, the court struck several paragraphs of the proposed amended claim, including a statute-barred claim against the police board and Charter claims unsupported by pleaded facts, while allowing claims for negligent investigation and harassment to proceed.
