What are the costs of computerised legal research used in a personal injury case?
British Columbia, Canada
The following excerpt is from Fairchild v. Vancouver Coastal Health Authority, 2011 BCSC 616 (CanLII):
I am even more convinced today that the cost of computerised research is properly an item of overhead than I was in 2001 when I decided Prevette v. Cusano. In this current electronic age there are even more resources available (at no cost) for conducting legal research online than ever before (for example, there is now the CanLii system and our own courts website — which includes the vast majority of the court’s written reasons issues since 1999, at least). Therefore absent convincing evidence that pay-per-use type of computerised legal research was a necessary adjunct of the prosecution of this case, I will not allow the claim for these amounts.
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