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Registrar Nielsen assessed special costs in a wrongful dismissal and conspiracy case, awarding $660,000 in fees plus taxes, with reduced disbursements and limited enforcement-related costs.
Start with the presumption that Tariff C applies; because the hearing, while important and partly international, bore sufficient resemblance to tariff assumptions the court declined to award a lump sum. The court increased the Tariff C maximum by a multiplier of four (determinative hearing) to $24,000, then increased that amount by two thirds to reflect international factors and extra complexity, arriving at an award of $40,000 plus disbursements, but disallowed $3,122.01 for online legal research as overhead.
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The court approved a class counsel contingency fee agreement, fees, disbursements, taxes, and a trust fee to be paid from settlement proceeds.
A registrar reviewed a solicitor’s matrimonial-law accounts, reduced the fees for excessiveness, disallowed travel disbursements, and ordered no costs on the review.
The judge exercised discretion under the Civil Procedure Rules and Costs and Fees Act, concluding that although success was mixed, the petitioner and her prior counsel unreasonably and unnecessarily lengthened and inflamed the litigation with unproven, improper and vexatious allegations; financial hardship of petitioner tempered but did not bar an award; accordingly respondent entitled to a contribution to costs and disbursements totaling $14,250.
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Appeal from a solicitor’s fee review. The court set aside a nil-fee ruling, found the work had value but was below standard, and fixed a quantum meruit fee at $50,000.
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