What is the duty of a judge to fix or assess costs at a hearing?
Ontario, Canada
The following excerpt is from Marquest Asset Management v. Stone Investment Group, 2021 ONSC 4025 (CanLII):
Judges have a duty to fix or assess costs in reasonable amounts and have a duty to make sure that the hours spent are reasonably justified: Pagnotta v. Brown, [2002] O.J. No. 3033 (Ont. S.C.), at para. 25.
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