Lawyers Rights Watch Canada brought a motion to intervene as a friend of the court in an appeal concerning the enforcement of a Singaporean civil judgment.
The moving party sought to argue that Canadian courts should refuse to enforce judgments from corrupt legal systems.
The Court of Appeal dismissed the motion, finding that the proposed intervention would largely repeat the appellant's arguments in an essentially private commercial dispute.
The court also noted the motion was brought extremely late and the moving party improperly refused to produce its deponent for cross-examination.
