Can a judge's order of costs be overturned by the Court of Appeal?
Ontario, Canada
The following excerpt is from Angoss Software Corporation v. Scott, Lattice Engines Inc., 2013 ONSC 4360 (CanLII):
An appeal court should only interfere with a judge’s order of costs if there is an error in principle or if the costs award was plainly wrong (see Hamilton v. Open Window Bakery Ltd., 2004 SCC 9 (CanLII), [2004] 1 S.C.R. 303 at para. 27).
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