De Dieu v. Taylor,
2021 ONSC 3654 is a Brampton decision arising out of a May
2021 motion to strike the jury notice.
The action arises from a motor vehicle collision from September
2013. The statement of claim was issued in April 2015 and the
matter was set down for trial in May 2018. The action was put on
the January 2021 trial sittings list and later adjourned to the May
2021 blitz list. Due to the ongoing pandemic, jury matters will
still not be proceeding during the May 2021 blitz.
The defendant argued that the matter should be adjourned to the
January 2022 sittings so that it may be heard by a jury. However,
matters not reached in the January 2022 sittings will be traversed
to the January 2023 sittings because the May 2022 sittings are
full. If it is adjourned, the chances of this matter being heard in
January 2022 are unknown. In urging the wait and see approach, the
defendant argued that if the matter is not reached at the January
2022 sittings, the
