What is the impact of a litigant's conduct in court?
Ontario, Canada
The following excerpt is from Wiafe v. Afoakwa-Yeboah, 2021 ONCJ 254 (CanLII):
Court proceedings are expensive, time-consuming and stressful for all concerned. They are not designed to give a litigant the forum to conduct themselves with impunity and without regard to the impact on the other side: Huess v. Surkos, 2004 ONCJ 141.
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