The Saskatchewan Court of Appeal has set aside a temporary injunction that prevented a lawsuit filed by some grieving parents of those who died in the Humboldt Broncos bus crash from going ahead.
Sixteen people were killed and thirteen were injured in 2018, when an inexperienced truck driver barreled through a stop sign and into the path of the junior hockey team’s bus at a rural intersection in Saskatchewan.
A judge ruled last year that the lawsuit filed on behalf of five of the families should be put on hold until the court decides whether a proposed class-action suit should be certified.
Today the Appeal Court ruled the judge made an error, and the litigants access to court was being blocked.
The Appeal Court said the injunction could delay the case for months or years.
And it said although duplicate lawsuits are usually considered undesirable, they are not prohibited.
