In a personal injury action, is an unsuccessful party required to pay agents' fees or other reasonable charges or expenses?
British Columbia, Canada
The following excerpt is from Sahara Trucking v. Abbotsford Truck and Trailer, 2012 BCPC 246 (CanLII):
In requiring an unsuccessful party to pay “any other reasonable charges or expenses”, this would typically include such expenses as agents’ fees, except where the agent is a lawyer (because this is indirect recovery of solicitor-client fees.) In this case the agents’ fees claimed are not significant. In Kelly v. Lam 2006 BCPC 98, agents’ fees were allowed but mileage costs were not.
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