What is the legal test for a court to order costs personally against a lawyer?
Ontario, Canada
The following excerpt is from Penton v. Brandao, 2019 ONCJ 48 (CanLII):
[12] In Hunt v. Worrod, 2018 ONSC 2133, the court at paragraphs 33 and 34, set out the legal test for the court to follow in determining whether to order costs personally against a lawyer as follows:
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