Can a plaintiff continue to seek the same remedy using different legal arguments in different triers of fact?
Ontario, Canada
The following excerpt is from Janet Campagiorni et al. v. Lyne Legare et al., 2020 ONSC 667 (CanLII):
The courts have made it abundantly clear that litigants may not have endless opportunities to seek the same remedy using different legal arguments in front of different triers of fact. See Alberta v. Pocklington Foods Inc., 1995 ABCA 111, at para. 8.
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