What is the test for calculating solicitor's costs in a personal injury action?
Prince Edward Island, Canada
The following excerpt is from Arsenault-Cameron v. Prince Edward Island (Government of), 1997 CanLII 4606 (PE SCTD):
The defendant relies on the following comment of McLachlin J. in Young v. Young, 1993 CanLII 34 (SCC), [1993] 4 S.C.R. 3, at p. 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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