Case Summary

The moving party brought a motion to quash appeals by the responding parties on the basis that the Court of Appeal lacked jurisdiction. The orders under appeal granted the moving party leave to amend its statement of defence and added a party as a defendant. The Court of Appeal held that the orders were interlocutory, not final, because the motion judge merely made a preliminary assessment that the proposed defences were tenable and did not make a final determination on the merits. The motion to quash was granted and the appeals were quashed.