{"id":8919,"date":"2022-06-27T08:43:03","date_gmt":"2022-06-27T12:43:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/360mediations.com\/en\/?p=8919"},"modified":"2022-06-27T08:43:06","modified_gmt":"2022-06-27T12:43:06","slug":"the-doctrine-of-misnomer-permits-plaintiff-to-swap-husband-with-wife-as-owner-of-defendant-vehicle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/360mediations.com\/en\/the-doctrine-of-misnomer-permits-plaintiff-to-swap-husband-with-wife-as-owner-of-defendant-vehicle\/","title":{"rendered":"The Doctrine of Misnomer Permits Plaintiff to Swap Husband with Wife as Owner of Defendant Vehicle"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The Doctrine of Misnomer Permits Plaintiff to Swap Husband with Wife as Owner of Defendant Vehicle<\/strong><\/p>\n

In my previous post entitled \u201cThe Doctrine of Misnomer excuses Solicitor Inadvertence<\/a>,\u201d I highlighted a case dealing with the doctrine of misnomer, which allowed a plaintiff to introduce a new defendant institution after the limitation period expired, because the plaintiff got the name wrong: however, for all intents and purposes, once the Statement of Claim was served, the \u201cnew\u201d defendant would be well aware that the Plaintiff had intentions of coming after them (albeit in the initial phases the plaintiff failed to properly name them).<\/p>\n

In this recent court decision, the plaintiff was injured by a limousine.\u00a0 The driver was well known to the plaintiff, and the plaintiff sued the driver, and the driver\u2019s business who the plaintiff believed owned the car in question.\u00a0 Unfortunately, many years later, during the discovery, the defendant asserted that the limousine he was driving was his private limousine (rather than his business limousine), and that the ownership was in his wife\u2019s name.\u00a0 The Plaintiff brought a motion to add the wife, and the motion was granted under the doctrine of misnomer.\u00a0<\/p>\n

What I find odd in this case, however, is that the plaintiff agreed to remove the husband\u2019s business from the action given that the wife was disputing the allegation that the limousine registered in her name was involved in the accident.\u00a0 To me it would have been more prudent to keep both alleged owners in the claim until the ownership issue was resolved.\u00a0 Perhaps the concern was that misnomer is typically applied to swap names and not add names.<\/p>\n

Gipson v McCaugherty<\/strong>, 2022 ONSC 3728<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.canlii.org\/en\/on\/onsc\/doc\/2022\/2022onsc3728\/2022onsc3728.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Doctrine of Misnomer Permits Plaintiff to Swap Husband with Wife as Owner of Defendant Vehicle In my previous post entitled \u201cThe Doctrine of Misnomer excuses Solicitor Inadvertence,\u201d I highlighted a case dealing with the doctrine of misnomer, which allowed a plaintiff to introduce a new defendant institution after the limitation period expired, because the… Continue reading The Doctrine of Misnomer Permits Plaintiff to Swap Husband with Wife as Owner of Defendant Vehicle<\/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":[53,163],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-court-practice","category-personal-injury","entry"],"yoast_head":"\nThe Doctrine of Misnomer Permits Plaintiff to Swap Husband with Wife as Owner of Defendant Vehicle - 360Mediations<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The court permitted the Plaintiff to change the alleged owner of the defendant vehicle from husband to wife, after the expiration of the limitation period, under the doctrine of misnomer.\" \/>\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\/the-doctrine-of-misnomer-permits-plaintiff-to-swap-husband-with-wife-as-owner-of-defendant-vehicle\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The Doctrine of Misnomer Permits Plaintiff to Swap Husband with Wife as Owner of Defendant Vehicle - 360Mediations\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The court permitted the Plaintiff to change the alleged owner of the defendant vehicle from husband to wife, after the expiration of the limitation period, under the doctrine of misnomer.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.360mediations.com\/en\/the-doctrine-of-misnomer-permits-plaintiff-to-swap-husband-with-wife-as-owner-of-defendant-vehicle\/\" \/>\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=\"2022-06-27T12:43:03+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2022-06-27T12:43:06+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/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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