What are the implications of the Court of Appeal's decision to grant relief to a plaintiff in a personal injury case?
Ontario, Canada
The following excerpt is from MacIntyre-McAlear v. McAlear, 2018 ONSC 2815 (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 oblivious to the mounting costs of the litigation: Lawrence v. Lawrence, supra, at para. 54.
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