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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...
To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: The COVID-19 pandemic’s impact continues to send ripples into an ever-evolving court system as the quarantines and lockdowns endure. The early days of the pandemic halted hearings and stayed cases, but after almost a year of at-home practice, many litigators are facing the reality of conducting trials by Zoom. Vaccines may make in-person trials more likely, but do we know when, given talk on the news about new virus variants? The coronavirus did not create the need for virtual hearings. For years, participants in the litigation pr...