Can an informal settlement offer co-exist with a formal settlement offer?
British Columbia, Canada
The following excerpt is from Arsenovski v. Bodin, 2014 BCSC 199 (CanLII):
He submits the courts have long recognized that, while there can be only one formal offer extant at any given time, there can be informal settlement offers that co‑exist with formal offers. This is because, he submits, informal offers that do not meet the requirements of Rule 9‑1 do not revoke earlier formal offers. He relies on the following passage from MacKenzie v. Brooks, 1999 BCCA 623 at paras. 24-25, 26-28:
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