Does a party have to submit a sufficient amount of evidence to get approval of a settlement of the claims of a person under disability?
Ontario, Canada
The following excerpt is from Lochner et al. v PC Callanan et al., 2015 ONSC 2464 (CanLII):
In Rivera v. LeBlond, [2007] O.J. No. 889 (S.C.), Thorburn J. at para. 23 confirms the principle that a party seeking court approval is required to submit a sufficient amount of evidence to make a meaningful assessment of the reasonability of the proposed settlement of the claims of the person under disability.
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