Does a plaintiff have to pay costs to both parties even if they have successfully sued only one party?
Alberta, Canada
The following excerpt is from MacLean v. Lumley, 2009 ABQB 33 (CanLII):
In the Dhingra case Madam Justice Veit refers to King v. Zurich Insurance Co., [2002] E.W.J. No. 1835 (Eng. C.A., Civ. Div.) where it was stated at paragraph 33 that the approach of the various decisions, referring to several decisions including the Sanderson and Bullock decisions, that where a plaintiff had behaved reasonably in suing both defendants he should not normally end up paying costs to either party even though he succeeded only against one of the defendants.
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