Is a party to a cause who has disobeyed an order of the court a bar to be heard?
Ontario, Canada
The following excerpt is from 796839 Ontario Limited v Platt, 2016 ONSC 7097 (CanLII):
Laskin J.A. then analyzed Hadkinson v. Hadkinson. He ultimately preferred the following statement of Lord Denning: I am of the opinion that the fact that a party to a cause has disobeyed an order of the court is not of itself a bar to his being heard, but if his disobedience is such that, so long as it continues, it impedes the course of justice in the cause, by making it more difficult for the court to ascertain the truth or to enforce the orders which it may make, then the court may in its discretion refuse to hear him until the impediment is removed or good reason is shown why it should not be removed.
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