Item 3 relates to “all process, for which provision is not made elsewhere in this tariff, for commencing and prosecuting a proceeding”. It is for the pleadings – here the writ of summons and statement of claim. The amount claimed is 5. The defendants suggest that 3 is more appropriate particularly as they say the pleadings were to some extent “boiler plate”. While I agree that in relation to motor vehicle accident claims, the types of claims put into pleadings are for the most part boiler plate, there is still a fair degree of consideration of what part of the boiler plate one puts in. In Parrotta v. Bodnar (2006 BCSC 787) I allowed three units for a similar set of pleadings. I would allow the same number here.
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