The plaintiffs brought a motion seeking to amend their statement of claim to increase damages, and for various orders concerning discovery, including the location and manner of examining the individual defendants and the adequacy of document production, particularly electronic documents and meta-data.
The defendants had relocated multiple times, complicating discovery.
The court granted leave to amend the claim, directed the individual defendants to be examined in Ottawa with alternative arrangements for examination in Europe, and found the defendants' document production deficient.
It ordered the production of Google logs/meta-data and an index for certain document folders, emphasizing collaborative discovery planning and the timely handling of confidential information through appropriate orders.
