What is the test for removing a solicitor's personal feelings from the record?

Ontario, Canada


The following excerpt is from Fitzgerald v. Sharp, 2004 CanLII 32473 (ON SC):

The “personal feelings” of the party represented by the solicitor whose removal from the record is sought “are only one element in the application of an objective standard”: see Everingham v. Ontario, supra, at p. 126.

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