What is the effect of special costs for reprehensible conduct?
British Columbia, Canada
The following excerpt is from T.D.B. v. L.B., 2005 BCSC 1041 (CanLII):
Special costs are a penalty for reprehensible conduct. Such conduct is described in Leung v. Leung (1993), 77 B.C.L.R.(2d) 314 (B.C.S.C.) where Esson C.J.S.C. (as he then was) said that “reprehensible” is a word of wide meaning that can include conduct which is scandalous, outrageous or constitutes misbehaviour; but it also includes milder forms of misconduct. It means simply “deserving of reproof or rebuke.”
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