If I face formal offers and fail to beat them at trial, will I suffer costs consequences? What if it turns out that I was misleading experts and my credibility unravels at trial? In a decision released on August 16,
Read More →I beat my formal offer at trial. Will I be awarded double costs and double disbursements from the date of my formal offer? What if the Rule doesn’t specifically mention disbursements? In a decision released this week, Justice Dley considered
Read More →If ICBC makes a formal offer that is greater than I am awarded at trial, what are the cost consequences? What if I cannot afford to pay their costs of running the trial? In a decision released today by the BC
Read More →If I am awarded more at trial than my last offer to settle on the ‘eve of trial’, will the judge award me extra costs because the defendant forced me to run a trial and wasted court time? What does a judge consider
Read More →If the defence makes a formal offer that is not accepted, what happens if the judge awards less than the formal offer? In today’s case of Ben-Yosef v. Dasanjh (2016 BCSC 1945), the defence made a formal offer of $70,000.00
Read More →If ICBC makes a formal offer, and I don’t beat it at trial, are costs guaranteed to be ordered against me? What if ICBC withheld a surveillance video that might help my case? In a judgment released last week by
Read More →Picture this: you make a formal offer to settle, and ICBC doesn’t accept it, ultimately forcing a trial. At trial you’re awarded more than what you offered to accept. Should you be entitled to extra costs for the unnecessary litigation?
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