Can a lawyer be ordered to pay special costs?
British Columbia, Canada
The following excerpt is from SWS Marketing Inc. v Zavier, 2021 BCSC 1860 (CanLII):
The court does have the discretion to order a lawyer to pay special costs, but the threshold is very high. In Walsh v. Muirhead, 2020 BCCA 225, the court stated:
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