What is the test for making a personal injury costs order?
Alberta, Canada
The following excerpt is from Archer v. St. John, 2008 ABQB 245 (CanLII):
On reasonableness, the British Columbia Supreme Court had this to say in McHardy v. Contois, 2008 BCSC 292 at para. 37: His Lordship stated the threshold question to allowing such costs orders was that put by Vaughan Williams L.J. in Besterman: was it reasonable for the plaintiff to join both defendants in order that the matter might be thoroughly threshed out?
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