Is West One's cause of action separate from the individual plaintiffs?
British Columbia, Canada
The following excerpt is from Virk v. Brar, 2011 BCSC 301 (CanLII):
There is a more general problem: do the individual plaintiffs have a cause of action separate from West One’s cause of action, in view of the rule in Foss v. Harbottle (1843), 67 E.R. 189? I do not think lumping everyone together as “the Plaintiffs” avoids or provides an answer to this problem.
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