What is the legal test for a corporate officer to be required to answer on discovery?
Ontario, Canada
The following excerpt is from Caponi v. Canada Life et al., 2013 ONSC 1718 (CanLII):
This is unlike the cases provided by both the plaintiff and the Trustees that consider what a corporate officer may or may not be required to answer on discovery: see Kay v. Posluns, [1993] O.J. NO. 188 and the cases cited therein at paras. 25-40.
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