What are the guiding principles in apportioning costs?
British Columbia, Canada
The following excerpt is from Mothe v. Silva, 2015 BCSC 1053 (CanLII):
In Lee v. Jarvie, 2012 BCSC 1521, Mr. Justice Gaul described guiding principles in the exercise of the court’s discretion to apportion costs as follows at para. 12:
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