Can lay litigants who have not retained a lawyer be reimbursed for their time spent conducting litigation?

Also, as noted in para. 26 of Fong v. Chan, supra, costs are to be awarded to lay litigants who demonstrate that they devoted time and effort that would ordinarily be done by a lawyer in conducting the litigation. They are not entitled to be reimbursed for the time that any party to a proceeding would have incurred where they had retained the counsel on their behalf.