Is a plaintiff on a disability payment entitled to double costs?
British Columbia, Canada
The following excerpt is from Mohamed v. Intransit BC Limited Partnership, 2016 BCSC 321 (CanLII):
In Han v. Park, 2013 BCSC 2296, Fitzpatrick J. addressed an application for double costs brought against a plaintiff who was on a disability payment. Fitzpatrick J. considered that the plaintiff’s “actions and inaction in the litigation [showed] more than sufficient reason to justify the ‘penalty’”; at para. 63.
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