What is the purpose of special costs?
British Columbia, Canada
The following excerpt is from Panghali v. Panghali, 2014 BCSC 647 (CanLII):
The purpose of special costs is to chastise or punish a litigant, and to allow the court to disassociate itself from the litigant’s misconduct: Mayer v. Osborne Contracting Ltd., 2011 BCSC 914 at paras. 8, 10.
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