What is the test for pleading in a statement of claim?
Ontario, Canada
The following excerpt is from Cottage Advisors of Canada v. Prince Edward Vacant Land, 2020 ONSC 6445 (CanLII):
As noted in the recent Court of Appeal decision, Burns v. RBC Life Insurance Company, 2020 ONCA 347, at para. 16: … Each defendant in a statement of claim should be able to look at the pleading and find an answer to a simple question: What do you say I did that has caused you, the plaintiff, harm and when did I do it?
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