What are the consequences of a party's success rate when it is not substantially successful?

British Columbia, Canada


The following excerpt is from Aschenbrenner v. Yahemech, 2010 BCSC 1541 (CanLII):

Where success is divided such that there is no substantially successful party, the parties may have to bear their own costs (Mari v. Mari, 2001 BCSC 1848, [2001] B.C.J. No. 2979).

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