Does the court have any authority or authority to order that counsel spend an excessive amount of time on a motion?
Ontario, Canada
The following excerpt is from Morgan v Morgan, 2017 ONSC 838 (CanLII):
Generally, the court ought not to second guess the time spent by counsel. As the court held in Basedo v. University Health Network, [2002] O.J. No. 597 (S.C.J.) at para. 7, 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 “over lawyered”.
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