What is the test for amending a pleading?
Ontario, Canada
The following excerpt is from Lithium Royalty Corp. v. Orion Resource Partners et al., 2021 ONSC 7686 (CanLII):
Furthermore, the test for amending a pleading, and by analogy a notice of application, is whether it is plain and obvious that the proposed amendments would not succeed at the hearing: Durakovic v. Guzman et al., 2018 ONSC 645, at para. 10. It is a low threshold.
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