In what circumstances will a solicitor be awarded solicitor and client costs?
Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada
The following excerpt is from A.T.M. v. T.Y., 2013 NLCA 48 (CanLII):
Regarding situations in which an award of solicitor and client costs may be appropriate, McLachlin J., for the majority in Young v. Young, 1993 CanLII 34 (SCC), [1993] 4 S.C.R. 3, wrote, at page 134: … Solicitor-client costs are generally awarded only where there has been reprehensible, scandalous or outrageous conduct on the part of one of the parties. …
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