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On Friday, Conservative lawyer Arthur Hamilton submitted the party’s bill to the council, seeking $355,907, which he describes as a “fraction of the costs of preparing and filing written submissions and the cost of two lawyers preparing for one week and attending at court.”

The council complained Monday that the figure was exorbitant.

“This is an outrageous amount to request, given that the judge found that voter suppression did occur and that the Conservative Party database was the likely source of the call lists,” said Garry Neill, the executive director of the council, which describes itself as a progressive advocacy group.

The Conservatives had no comment.

The council now has 15 days to prepare a submission arguing for a lower award, likely the $7,000 the organization submitted as a surety. The Conservatives have five days to respond, after which Mosley will select an amount.

The council and the Conservatives have yet to discuss the amount that the party must pay the organization for costs.

Neil said Monday that the organization has raised about $500,000 from supporters to help underwrite the case, but spent about $600,000.

Hamilton’s submission on behalf of the party outlines only some of the costs that the Conservatives incurred in the case, and calculates the lawyers’ fees not based on what they were actually paid but on a lower amount, then reduces the sum by half. Tables accompanying the submission suggest Hamilton billed the party at about $500 an hour for 223 hours, a total of $110,740, although that covers, as he writes, only a fraction of his work on the case. The total legal bill for 577 hours of work by Hamilton and two colleagues comes in at $263,060.