Can a costs order be overturned on appeal?
Ontario, Canada
The following excerpt is from Siemon v. Perth Standard Condominium Corporation, 2020 ONCA 503 (CanLII):
A costs order should only be interfered with on appeal if the judge below erred in principle or if the costs award is plainly wrong: Hamilton v. Open Window Bakery Ltd., 2004 SCC 9, [2004] 1 S.C.R. 303, at para. 27. There was no such error here.
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