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Supplementary reasons on costs after dismissal of an application to vary refusal of leave to appeal an arbitration award. The Court ordered costs against the appellant only, not its director.
The court refused relief from forfeiture after finding Dakin West remained in breach of its licence, lacked clean hands, and had not shown a disproportionate forfeiture.
The court held that a settlement agreement’s indemnity clause applied to claims already released, entitling the defendants to indemnity costs subject to assessment.
Court accepted that respondents qualified as public interest litigants for standing purposes but held that public interest status did not automatically eliminate costs exposure; balanced factors and awarded Mount Pleasant Group of Cemeteries $150,000 (appeal and cross-appeal) and $200,000 (application) against FTPC (inclusive of disbursements and tax), and awarded $10,000 against Ms. Wong-Tam for appeal and cross-appeal with no order for application costs.
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The court held Roger Wade personally liable for knowingly assisting Log Transport’s breach of statutory and contractual trust obligations for pension and disability contributions.
Costs assessment after a partition and trust dispute. The court allowed the respondent’s solicitor-client accounts in part and fixed recovery at $22,730.28.
The motion was dismissed because there existed genuine issues of material fact as to the architect's role and contribution to risk; given the complexity, importance, preparation and partial use of expert material the court found special circumstances to depart from Tariff C and awarded a lump sum cost equal to approximately one third of the Defendant's actual expenses, $5,500 inclusive, as a substantial but incomplete indemnity.
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A summary trial judgment found negligent misrepresentation and breach of contract over an unregistered debenture, awarding caveat-related costs and an interest differential.
La Cour suprême de la Colombie-Britannique ordonne à la demanderesse de fournir 180 000 $ en garantie des dépens, faute de quoi l’action sera suspendue.
The British Columbia Court of Appeal awarded Hapag-Lloyd its costs on scale 1 and declined to require Davis to indemnify Valmet for those costs.
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