Court File and Parties

COURT FILE NO.: CV-18-609444, CV-18-606377-CL, CV-19-628847-CL, CV-19-627188-CL, CV-18-00009436 DATE: 2022-03-07 SUPERIOR COURT OF JUSTICE - ONTARIO

RE: Mohsen Madani, Plaintiff – AND – Ali Razian, Behzad Pilehvar, 2576906 Ontario Inc. cob Sand Gecko Group of Companies, SKJ Law Office Professional Corporation, Johal Law Firm Professional Corporation and Satinder Kaur Johal, Defendants

AND RE: Behzad Pilehvar, Plaintiff – AND – Galilee Capital Ltd., Ali Razian and Ali, Ghasemyarmaki, Defendants

AND RE: Ali Ghasemyarmaki, Applicant – AND – Behzad Pilehvar aka Behzad Pilehver, Mahtab Nali, Ali Razian, Lily Bahraman, Remax Realtron Realty Inc., Parminder Hundal, Hundal Law, Sand Gecko Inc., 2576906 Ontario Inc cob Sand Gecko Group of Companies, Sand Gecko Group and Galilee Capital Ltd., Respondents

AND RE: Ali Razian, Plaintiff – AND – Galilee Capital Ltd., Sand Gecko Inc., 2576906 Ontario Inc. cob Sand Gecko Group of Companies, 2573575 Ontario Corp cob ABA Development, 2570494 Ontario Ltd. cob ABA Financial Services Group, Behzad Pilehver aka Behzad Pilehvar aka Ben Pilehver aka Ben Pilehvar, Benny Pilehver aka Benny Pilehvar, Ali Ghasemyarmaki aka Ali Ghasemy Armaki, Parminder Hundal aka Pam Hundal cob Hundal Law, Lelia Hosseini Nia aka Lily Bahraman, Peyman Pornour aka Paul Pornour, Proxy Real Property Inc. Brokerage, Remax Realtron Realty Inc., Homelife New World Realty Inc., Howard Cary Cohen and Howard C. Cohen & Associates, Defendants

AND RE: 1548132 Ontario Corporation and Violet Farid, Plaintiffs – AND – Behzad Pilehver, Ali Razian and Mohsen Madani, Defendants

BEFORE: E.M. Morgan J.

COUNSEL: Jonathan Friedman, for Mohsen Madani Mark Ross and Sarah Walker, for Ali Razian Peter-Paul E. Du Vernet, for Ali Ghasemyarmaki Dara Hirbod, for Leila Hosseini Nia aka Lily Bahraman Aaron Hershtal, for Pam Hundal and Hundal Law Adam Pantel, for Howard Cary Cohen and Howard C. Cohen & Associates Jerome Stanleigh, for Behzad Pilehvar and Sand Gecko Inc. Lauren Rakowski, for SKJ Law Office and Satinder Johal Dimitrios Mylonopoulos and Ross Mirian, for 1548132 Ontario Corporation and Violet Farid

HEARD: January 19, 2022 CASE CONFERENCE – MARCH 7, 2022

Endorsement

[1] Counsel in these various matters updated me today on the state of the proceedings.

[2] It appears that the Commercial List matters have been, or are in the process of being, traversed to the regular Civil list.

[3] Mr. Stanleigh still needs to file a number of pleadings on behalf of his client, Behzad Pilehvar. He has indicated that those pleadings will be cleaned up within the next two weeks. I gather that Mr. Pilehvar has been noted in default, but that the setting aside of those defaults will be by consent. Mr. Friedman and Mr. Mylonopoulos indicated that they will each send my assistant a draft Orders for me to sign once they have heard from Mr. Stanleigh and worked things out with him so that the pleadings can be filed.

[4] Counsel are in the process of working out a mutually convenient discovery schedule. Hopefully, they will arrive at a way of doing the discoveries which expedites the various matters as much as possible by doing them at the same time, while at the same time preserving the ability to keep the transcripts separate and self-contained enough to be used in separate trials if it turns out that the matters are not tried together. Mr. Ross indicated that he would attempt to quarterback the effort to arrive at the discovery schedule. All counsel are content at the moment to aim for December 31, 2022 as an outside date for completing discoveries.

[5] There are a number of matters that will likely give rise to contentious motions that need to be scheduled with my office. These include a possible motion for a Mareva injunction as well as a motion with respect to carriage of the litigation on behalf of Sand Gecko Inc. Both of those are essentially between Mr. Stanleigh’s client and Mr. Ross’ client, with Mr. Du Vernet’s client having some interest in participating as well. Counsel should be in touch with my assistant to schedule those motions when they are in a position to do so. While all counsel should be copied on all correspondence with my office, I would ask that when scheduling a motion it be specified to my assistant which counsel are actually involved in the particular motion so that we do not wait unnecessarily for uninvolved parties to respond to a request for dates.

[6] There is also a likelihood that all counsel will participate in a motion to join the trials of these matters in some way. Several counsel appear to support that, while Mr. Stanleigh and perhaps others are opposed to it. When and if counsel are ready to set a motion date to argue that motion, they are to be in touch with my assistant in that regard. It seems to me that a motion in respect of the trial may lie far down the road, assuming that the discovery schedule can be worked out so as not to prejudice any party in the debate over whether the actions will ultimately be tried together.

[7] I have not set a date for the next case conference. Once counsel are in touch with my office in respect to the outstanding matters described above, we will set a new date for a case conference in order for me to get an ongoing update and progress report.

Morgan J.

Date: March 7, 2022