Does a client have a contractual right to be indemnified by solicitor and client costs?

British Columbia, Canada


The following excerpt is from Park Royal Shopping Centre Holdings Ltd. v Gap (Canada) Inc., 2017 BCSC 1257 (CanLII):

See also Bakshi v. Shan, 2013 BCSC 969, at para. 44, wherein Brown J. held that "a contractual right to be indemnified by solicitor-and-client costs must be clearly and unequivocally expressed".

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