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Ampscon Inc. v. Melloul- Blamey Construction Inc. 2018 Ont SCJ (MC)

In determining whether to set aside the registrar’s dismissal of an action after a five-year delay, the Master discounted four of those years because the defendant had done nothing itself to push the matter along. He criticised the defendant for “lying in the weeds.”

Written by Jonathan Speigel, the founding partner of Speigel Nichols Fox LLP, leads the litigation and construction practices.