What are full indemnity costs between parties on the solicitor-and-client scale?
Northwest Territories, Canada
The following excerpt is from Carter v Northwest Territories Power Corp., 2014 NWTSC 72 (CanLII):
Outside of contractual provisions (such as those typically found in mortgage agreements, for example) or specific statutory or regulatory provisions, costs between parties on the solicitor-and-client scale are generally awarded only in exceptional circumstances, such as “where there has been reprehensible, scandalous or outrageous conduct on the part of one of the parties”. (Young v. Young, 1993 CanLII 34 (SCC), [1993] 4 SCR 3 (at 134)). c. Full Indemnity Costs
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