{"id":8506,"date":"2022-05-04T18:31:09","date_gmt":"2022-05-04T22:31:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/360mediations.com\/en\/?p=8506"},"modified":"2022-05-04T18:31:11","modified_gmt":"2022-05-04T22:31:11","slug":"court-of-appeal-once-again-confirms-the-duty-to-disclose-settlements-to-remaining-parties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mail.360mediations.com\/en\/court-of-appeal-once-again-confirms-the-duty-to-disclose-settlements-to-remaining-parties\/","title":{"rendered":"Court of Appeal Once Again Confirms the Duty to Disclose Settlements to Remaining Parties"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>You may recall from my prior post entitled <a href=\"https:\/\/360mediations.com\/en\/duty-to-immediately-disclose-any-settlement-that-changes-the-litigation-landscape\/\">Duty to Immediately Disclose any Settlement that Changes the Litigation Landscape<\/a>, wherein I outlined the case where the Court of Appeal confirmed that a party waiting three weeks to disclose a settlement to the remaining non-settling defendants was too long: the immediate requirement meant right away (ie: the next day).\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Given the draconian by-product of the failure to disclose a settlement, that being a permanent stay of the proceeding, it is not surprising that this issue was once again before the appellate court.\u00a0 However, as before, the result of today\u2019s decision was the same: the appellate court upheld the stay of the action in circumstances where the settling parties failed to disclose the settlement for six months.\u00a0 The court said it was immaterial that there was no actual prejudice to the non-settling parties during this interval.<\/p>\n<p>During mediations this can become a live issue, especially where there is one party that doesn&#8217;t want to settle, and some of the others do.\u00a0 Often those that want to exchange offers desire to exclude the recalcitrant party or parties from the discussions, which is understandable and acceptable in the right circumstances; however, in the event the chatting parties reach a resolution (in private), they must remember that within the next few days, that settlement should be shared with the non-negotiating parties, or else there is a high risk that the entire action will being stayed.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Poirier v. Logan<\/em><\/strong>, 2022 ONCA 350<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.canlii.org\/en\/on\/onca\/doc\/2022\/2022onca350\/2022onca350.html\">https:\/\/www.canlii.org\/en\/on\/onca\/doc\/2022\/2022onca350\/2022onca350.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You may recall from my prior post entitled Duty to Immediately Disclose any Settlement that Changes the Litigation Landscape, wherein I outlined the case where the Court of Appeal confirmed that a party waiting three weeks to disclose a settlement to the remaining non-settling defendants was too long: the immediate requirement meant right away (ie:&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/mail.360mediations.com\/en\/court-of-appeal-once-again-confirms-the-duty-to-disclose-settlements-to-remaining-parties\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Court of Appeal Once Again Confirms the Duty to Disclose Settlements to Remaining Parties<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[53],"tags":[212],"class_list":["post-8506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-court-practice","tag-settlement-disclosure","entry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Court of Appeal Once Again Confirms the Duty to Disclose Settlements to Remaining Parties - 360Mediations<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"In numerous recent rulings, the Ontario Court of Appeal has made it abundantly clear that failing to immediately disclose a civil settlement to the remaining parties will end the litigation in its tracks.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.360mediations.com\/en\/court-of-appeal-once-again-confirms-the-duty-to-disclose-settlements-to-remaining-parties\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Court of Appeal Once Again Confirms the Duty to Disclose Settlements to Remaining Parties - 360Mediations\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"In numerous recent rulings, the Ontario Court of Appeal has made it abundantly clear that failing to immediately disclose a civil settlement to the remaining parties will end the litigation in its tracks.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.360mediations.com\/en\/court-of-appeal-once-again-confirms-the-duty-to-disclose-settlements-to-remaining-parties\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"360Mediations\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/360Mediations-120028596572318\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:author\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/360Mediations-120028596572318\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2022-05-04T22:31:09+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2022-05-04T22:31:11+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mail.360mediations.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/COURT-DECISIONS-360MEDIATIONS-1x1-1.png?fit=406%2C322&ssl=1\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"406\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"322\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/png\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"David M. 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