What are the legal costs of the owner of a strata and the strata that owns the property?
British Columbia, Canada
The following excerpt is from Fisher v. The Owners, Strata Plan VR 1420, 2019 BCCRT 1379 (CanLII):
86. Both the strata the owner seek an order analogous to special costs, as discussed in Parfitt et al v. The Owners, Strata Plan VR 416 et al, 2019 BCCRT 330. Special costs are an unusual order, in which a court will order a party to pay all or part of another party’s legal costs. An award of special costs by the court is only made in exceptional circumstances, and is intended to chastise a party for reprehensible, scandalous or outrageous conduct.
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