OTTAWA – A Federal Court judge says Amazon Canada should have hired “at least 100 lawyers” to go through more than 2 million documents, in order to meet court-ordered deadlines in an investigation into potentially anti-competitive conduct.
Federal Court Chief Justice Paul Crampton says in an explanation of his ruling to grant some extensions for document production to Amazon, but not others, that 100 lawyers could finish a review of the 2.25 million documents in 15 weeks.
He calculates that by working 10 hours a day, five days a week, and reviewing an average of 30 documents per hour, each lawyer would have to assess “no more than approximately 22,500 documents” each for the probe by the country’s commissioner of competition.