Is an answer to an undertaking a material step in an action?
Alberta, Canada
The following excerpt is from Zazulak v. Verbeek, 2006 ABQB 261 (CanLII):
Thus, as stated by Wittmann, J.A., as he then was, in Kuziw v. Kucheran Estate [2000] 266 A.R., in considering whether an answer to an undertaking was a material step in an action, he concluded that it may well be, but “. . . something more is required.”
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