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Settlement Offer

  • Published by Jill Bishop,

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,

  • Published by Jillian Dean,

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

  • Published by Jill Bishop,

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

  • Published by Jill Bishop,

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

  • Published by Jill Bishop,

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

  • Published by Paul Hergott, Personal Injury Lawyer,

I have just settled my claim with ICBC and they have agreed to pay for “taxable costs and disbursements”. How will the court decide what expenses can be claimed under this amount?   The recent judgement of Perron v Catalano

  • Published by Jill Bishop,

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