In a decision relating to two proposed class proceedings – Pavlioglu et al. v. FinanceIt Canada Inc. and Quinn v. Vault Home Credit Corporation – the Ontario Superior Court considered the novel question of whether to grant the plaintiff’s “unprecedented” request for temporary stays of an indeterminate number of present and future related individual actions commenced by or against potential class members. The Court found that proposed class members were not “strangers” to the pre-certification class proceeding and the plaintiffs had standing to bring the stay motion in respect of the proposed class members’ related proceedings, but that a blanket stay of all the related proceedings did not meet the test prescribed in section 13 of the Ontario Class Proceedings Act.
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