[ISL] "P.E.I. Supreme Court tosses out $25M e-gaming lawsuit against province"

[rfmcdonald]

This CBC report leaves me baffled by the whole scandal. What, exactly, went on?

The Supreme Court of P.E.I. has tossed out a $25-million e-gaming lawsuit against the provincial government and two P.E.I. businessmen put forward by Capital Markets Technologies Inc. and 7645686 Canada Inc.

But the court also left an opportunity for the company to start over — something the company says it plans to do.

In his decision, Supreme Court Justice Gordon Campbell called the statement of claim filed by CMT "a long, rambling narrative replete with irrelevant and immaterial facts, evidence, opinion, argument and speculation." He goes on to say the statement of claim constitutes an abuse of the processes of the court.

Campbell states in his written decision that he does "not consider the claim as written to be capable of being 'fixed,'" however he grants the plaintiffs the opportunity "to start afresh and file a newly drafted statement of claim."

Campbell also says, "If the plaintiffs are incapable of succinctly stating the material facts of their claim without reliance on inappropriate or improper pleadings, their claim should not be allowed to proceed."