Is a successful party entitled to costs in a personal injury action?
British Columbia, Canada
The following excerpt is from Armstrong v. Armstrong, 2012 BCSC 419 (CanLII):
The onus of persuading the court that it should depart from the usual rule that the successful party is entitled to costs rests on the unsuccessful litigant: Rattenbury v. Rattenbury, 2001 BCSC 593, at para. 18.
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