What is the test for parties to litigation?
Ontario, Canada
The following excerpt is from Mignault v. Lauzon, 2018 ONSC 7140 (CanLII):
Parties to litigation must understand that court proceedings are expensive, time-consuming and stressful for all concerned. They are not designed to give individual litigants a forum for carrying on in whatever manner they may choose, oblivious to the impact of that conduct on the other side and, perhaps most importantly for the purposes of this case, oblivious to the mounting costs of the litigation: Lawrence v. Lawrence, supra, at para. 54.
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