-Settlement Conference fast approaching
-I am the Applicant
-The Respondent has failed to provide full financial disclosure (claiming he has been unemployed for 12 months but has not provided ROE's ei stubs etc etc)
-I have become aware of multiple sources of income the Respondent has had in the past 12 months (long story short, he has been the exact opposite of unemployed)
- I sent a Form 20 Request for Info to the Respondent and his counsel which requested very specific items, with a deadline. This went ignored and is now past the deadline date
- I chose not to file for a motion after the deadline on Form 20 as our Settlement Conference is so close anyways, and I am assuming I will be able to request and get the same sort of order for disclosure in the Conference as I would be able to in a motion (?- hoping I was correct in this thinking?)
- In my conference brief I am requesting an order for disclosure of the documents previously listed in Form 20
- Am I correct in assuming I should be able to request costs for the settlement conference, as his failure to disclose has ultimately rendered further delays in our case, and with that more unnecessary steps?
- I have done some research on case law regarding costs, and have been journaling my hours spent on preparing for this conference. Would a request for costs awarded at $100/hr for 25 (too much, too little?) hours be reasonable, so long as I am a well prepared and organized self represented litigant?
-I am the Applicant
-The Respondent has failed to provide full financial disclosure (claiming he has been unemployed for 12 months but has not provided ROE's ei stubs etc etc)
-I have become aware of multiple sources of income the Respondent has had in the past 12 months (long story short, he has been the exact opposite of unemployed)
- I sent a Form 20 Request for Info to the Respondent and his counsel which requested very specific items, with a deadline. This went ignored and is now past the deadline date
- I chose not to file for a motion after the deadline on Form 20 as our Settlement Conference is so close anyways, and I am assuming I will be able to request and get the same sort of order for disclosure in the Conference as I would be able to in a motion (?- hoping I was correct in this thinking?)
- In my conference brief I am requesting an order for disclosure of the documents previously listed in Form 20
- Am I correct in assuming I should be able to request costs for the settlement conference, as his failure to disclose has ultimately rendered further delays in our case, and with that more unnecessary steps?
- I have done some research on case law regarding costs, and have been journaling my hours spent on preparing for this conference. Would a request for costs awarded at $100/hr for 25 (too much, too little?) hours be reasonable, so long as I am a well prepared and organized self represented litigant?
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