Vancouver partner Geoffrey Cowper comments on the significant delays in Canada’s civil justice system in an article published in The Globe and Mail.
He comments on how Canada’s “party-driven” system, in which civil litigants and their lawyers decide how and when a case should proceed, encourages delays.
“In almost all civil litigation, one party cares more about delay than the other party. So then, the incentives are in place to use whatever procedural methods are available to delay,” said partner Geoffrey Cowper.
