Legal Costs

Two consultants who moved to Colombia to work on cannabis cultivation operations that were never built will recover part of their legal costs at a higher rate. The Supreme Court …

A BC Transit worker whose union breached its duty of fair representation will not be reimbursed for legal fees he spent on a related human rights complaint because he never …

A worker constructively dismissed by Edmonton Granite Memorials will not receive double costs despite a formal settlement offer that came close to the amount he was eventually awarded at trial, …

Former Canadian Football League wide receiver Arland Bruce, who established three collective agreement violations tied to his 2012 concussion, will recover only the mandatory costs set out in the cont… …

A British Columbia lawyer and his law corporation have won a small claims dispute against a former client who refused to pay legal fees after a severance negotiation, with the …

The Superior Court of Justice – Ontario has ordered IBM Canada to pay $215,000 in costs to a former employee, awarding the costs on a substantial indemnity basis because of …

An Ontario judge has ordered Canaccord Genuity to pay nearly $800,000 in partial indemnity costs to a former investment banker who won a wrongful dismissal action, but declined to award …

An Ontario Small Claims Court judge has ordered a self-represented plaintiff to pay just over $3,000 in costs after his wrongful dismissal action against a Toronto law firm and one …

An Alberta worker who introduced fabricated documents during a wrongful dismissal trial has been ordered to pay his former employer more than $492,000 in costs, after the Court of King’s… …

A Manitoba farmer who won a judgment of more than $858,000 against a farming company and its principal has also secured an enhanced cost award covering 75 per cent of …