What are the principles that guide an assessment of special costs?

British Columbia, Canada


The following excerpt is from Moon Development Corporation v. Pirooz, 2016 BCCA 22 (CanLII):

There are other principles that guide an assessment of special costs, which I canvassed in McKnight v. Hutchison, 2014 BCCA 472 (Registrar) at para. 20. I apply those principles to this assessment.

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