What is the test for an order of special costs?

British Columbia, Canada


The following excerpt is from Port Coquitlam Building Supplies Ltd. v 494743 B.C. Ltd., 2019 BCSC 540 (CanLII):

The party who seeks an order of special costs bears the onus of establishing the basis for such an award: Hollander v. Mooney, 2017 BCCA 238 at para. 96, leave to appeal ref’d [2017] S.C.C.A. No. 356.

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