When may several parties with their own claims be heard as co-litigants in a case seeking cancellation of an administrative disposition?
General information · Not legal advice
Material to check
In practice material of this kind, we read the pleading that seeks cancellation of the disposition, decision or similar act, the papers in which each additional person states their claim, and any filing showing how each of those claims relates to the cancellation request at the centre of the case.
These are types of material to look for, not evidence already verified by PRO SE.
Where readings differ
One reading takes the limit at face value: several persons may become co-litigants only where their claims, or the claims made against them, are claims related to a claim for cancellation of a disposition, decision or similar act, so a cancellation claim must be present in the case before joinder is available.
Another reading stresses that the several claims need not each be cancellation claims: the provision asks only that they be claims related to that cancellation claim, and it then says the persons 'may become' co-litigants, so the relatedness of each claim is a matter the file must show.
Your judgment
How closely must each person's claim relate to the cancellation claim before that person is treated as a co-litigant in the case?
PRO SE does not make this decision or keep a case record on this public site.When to reconsider
We look at this again if the provision is amended to define how a claim must relate to a cancellation claim, or if a court decision sets how close that relation must be or explains the permissive wording.