When will a court order that counsel spend an excessive amount of time on their client’s schedule?
Ontario, Canada
The following excerpt is from Wellington Plumbing & Heating Ltd. v. Villa Nicolini Incorporated, 2012 ONSC 6616 (CanLII):
Generally, the court ought not to second guess the time spent by counsel, as observed by Nordheimer J. in Basedo v. University Health Network, [2002] O.J. No 597 (S.C.J.) where he said, “it is not the role of the court to second guess the time spent by counsel unless it is manifestly unreasonable in the sense that the total time spent is clearly excessive or the matter has been overly lawyered.”
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