Is there any case law in which a learned judge has called for "comity" to be considered in the context of cross-border litigation?
Ontario, Canada
The following excerpt is from Sollen v. Pfizer Canada Inc., 2008 CanLII 8618 (ON SC):
Similarly in Hunt v. T & N, plc, 1993 CanLII 43 (SCC), [1993] 4 S.C.R. 289, at page 325, the same learned judge stated: One must emphasise that the ideas of "comity" are not an end in themselves, but are grounded in notions of order and fairness to participants in litigation with connections to multiple jurisdictions.
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