What are the double costs awarded to a defendant using an offer to settle procedure?
British Columbia, Canada
The following excerpt is from Urbanczyk v 1128 Enterprises Ltd., 2019 BCSC 649 (CanLII):
Double costs are only awarded to a defendant using the offer to settle procedure in exceptional circumstances. For example, where the plaintiff’s claim was dismissed all together after a plaintiff rejected an offer to settle: Currie v. McKinnon, 2012 BCSC 1165 at para. 19.
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