Is a plaintiff entitled to security for costs under Rule 9 of the Rules as to costs in a personal injury action?
Saskatchewan, Canada
The following excerpt is from Poissant v. Poissant, 1941 CanLII 205 (SK QB):
In Crossman v. Purvis, supra, the headnote reads in part as follows: “The granting of an order for security for costs in the event of the plaintiff being shown to fall within one of the eight cases mentioned in R. 9 of the Rules as to costs is not a matter of course but of judicial discretion.”
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