How have courts dealt with interim disbursements and costs in litigation?
Ontario, Canada
The following excerpt is from Romanelli v Romanelli, 2017 ONSC 1312 (CanLII):
In Hall v. Sabri, [2011] O.J. No. 4178 (S.C.J.) the applicant requested interim disbursements and costs. Based upon the lack of evidence provided by valuators or estimates of the cost of litigation, Bielby J. was unwilling to order interim disbursements or costs. He asserted that, “The amount claimed seems to have been pulled out of the air without any evidence of anticipated costs” [para. 78]. The motion was dismissed subject to leave to the applicant to reapply with “proper evidence”.
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