What are the costs of a personal injury proceeding?
Ontario, Canada
The following excerpt is from Hazelwood v. Hazelwood, 2013 ONSC 25 (CanLII):
The amount claimed is disproportionate to the nature and complexity of the proceeding. The hearing itself did not exceed a half day. Costs for such proceeding have a limit. And, as G.P. Smith J. stated in Rea v. Rea, [2008] O.J. No. 128, Simply stated, costs…have a limit and cannot be excessive no matter how much time has been expended by counsel failing which access to our judicial system will be prevented by parties of modest or average financial means.
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