What is the burden of proving unreasonable delay in an application for delay?
Manitoba, Canada
The following excerpt is from Ian Dmytriw et al. v. Jonah N.K. Odim et al., 2019 MBQB 143 (CanLII):
In Hansen v. Manitoba, 1993 CarswellMan 122 (CA), Helper J.A. indicated that the onus is upon the moving party in an application for delay to prove both unreasonable delay and resulting prejudice
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