What is the test for an offer of settlement?
Ontario, Canada
The following excerpt is from Price v Price, 2017 ONSC 1239 (CanLII):
Offers to settle are the yardstick with which to measure success and are significant both in considering liability and quantum as set out in Osmar v. Osmar (2000), 2000 CanLII 20380 (ON SC), 8 R.F.L. (5th) 387 (Ont. S.C.).
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