What is the test for an application under R. 19(24) of the Criminal Code?

British Columbia, Canada


The following excerpt is from Parmar v. Blenz The Canadian Coffee Company Ltd., 2007 BCSC 1190 (CanLII):

With respect to an application under R. 19(24) the court must proceed on the assumption that the facts pleaded are true (Hunt v. Carey Canada, Inc., supra), and for an applicant to succeed it must be plain and obvious that the impugned pleadings offend the subrules in R. 19(24), and the court must not weigh the evidence or closely examine the affidavits, and in fact, must give the benefit of any doubt to the plaintiff.

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