In what circumstances will the Court of Appeal award an elevated cost award?
Ontario, Canada
The following excerpt is from Gibb v. Pereira, 2018 ONSC 12 (CanLII):
In Young v. Young, 1993 CanLII 34 (SCC), [1993] 4 S.C.R. 3, at p.134, McLachlin J., (as she then was), indicated that elevated cost awards are warranted “only where there has been reprehensible, scandalous or outrageous conduct on the part of one of the parties”.
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