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In 2021, several significant judicial decisions were rendered across Canada relevant to commercial lenders, businesses and restructuring professionals. This comprehensive report...
To print this article, all you need is to be registered or login on Mondaq.com. Despite its importance, legal research is often a line item that comes under close scrutiny when a court awards costs to a successful litigant. Two recent cases demonstrate why legal research comes under such scrutiny. In Fox Excavating & Grading Ltd. v. 2012299 Ontario Inc., 2021 ONSC 451, Justice McSweeney was required to assess whether costs claimed for online legal research should be allowed in a case where the plaintiff had brought three actions arising out of the same contract. Two o...