What is the impact of court costs and long delays in resolving a civil matter?
Ontario, Canada
The following excerpt is from Hipkiss v. Comeau, 2020 ONSC 7796 (CanLII):
In Macleod, Myers J. referred to Hryniak v. Mauldin, 2014 SCC 7, [2014] 1 S.C.R. 87, and found at para. 30 that: • Our civil justice system is premised upon the value that the process of adjudication must be fair and just. This cannot be compromised; • Undue process and protracted trials, with unnecessary expense and delay, can prevent the fair and just resolution of disputes; and • Prompt judicial resolution of legal disputes allows individuals to get on with their lives. But, when court costs and delays become too great, people look for alternatives or simply give up on justice.
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