What is the accepted test for enhanced cost awards?
Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada
The following excerpt is from Stoodley v. Stoodley, 2019 NLSC 165 (CanLII):
I agree that this is the accepted test for an award of enhanced costs but that such awards are rare and follow only in exceptional circumstances (Pelley v. Pelley, 2003 NLCA 6).
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