Is a party who makes an offer under Rule 18 of the Rules entitled to costs from the date of the offer?
Ontario, Canada
The following excerpt is from Mastrangelo v. Di Cristofaro, 2020 ONSC 1322 (CanLII):
Sub-rule 18(14) of the rules provides that a party who makes an offer is, unless the court orders otherwise, entitled to costs to the date the offer was served and full recovery of costs from that date, if the conditions set out therein are met. The court is not required to examine each term of the offer as compared to the terms of the order and weigh with microscopic precision the equivalence of the terms. What is required is a general assessment of the overall comparability of the offer as contrasted with the order (Wilson v. Kovalev, 2016 ONSC 163, 72 R.F.L. (7th) 362).
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