Law360 Canada ( November 24, 2016, 7:00 PM EST) -- Application by the defendants, Bennett Jones and Matthews, for leave to appeal a judgment refusing to stay the plaintiffs’ action on jurisdictional grounds. In 2015, the plaintiffs sued the defendants in Alberta seeking damages for breach of contractual and professional duties. In 2016, a comparable action was commenced in Saskatchewan. The defendants applied for an order staying or striking the Saskatchewan action on jurisdictional grounds. The plaintiffs acknowledged that the two actions were grounded upon the same complaints and facts and undertook to discontinue the Alberta action if the Saskatchewan action was permitted to proceed. The chambers judge determined that Saskatchewan had territorial competence and was the most appropriate forum for conduct of the litigation. The judge acknowledged that the two actions presented an abuse of process and stayed the Saskatchewan action pending proof of the plaintiffs’ undertaking to discontinue the Alberta action, at which point the Saskatchewan action could proceed. The defendants sought leave to appeal....