Adam Dodek writes about the Castor Holdings case, now a cautionary tale, illustrating how a single case can consume resources and time far beyond what is reasonable.
The Castor Holdings saga was an epic fail, not only for the Quebec Superior Court but also for the entire Canadian legal system. It revealed the judicial system at its worst: how lawyers can hijack it for more than a decade; how a well-meaning but short-sighted and ineffective trial judge can lose sight of the larger issues of justice in the name of process; and how preventive measures are limited by the system’s structure, its overreliance on individuals, and its fidelity to judicial independence.