What are the implications of a decision not to award double costs in a personal injury case?
British Columbia, Canada
The following excerpt is from Royal Bank of Canada v Westech Appraisal Services Ltd., 2018 BCSC 1602 (CanLII):
These circumstances have some similarity to those in Aujla v. Kaila, 2011 BCSC 466, where Mr. Justice Harris, as he then was, declined to award double costs even though the plaintiff’s claim was dismissed. In doing so, at para. 11, he noted that the plaintiff’s case was not without any real prospect of success:
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