What is the current state of the law on awarding court costs?
British Columbia, Canada
The following excerpt is from British Columbia v. Canadian Forest Products Ltd., 2016 BCSC 2079 (CanLII):
The general principles governing the approach the court should take in awarding costs were recently reviewed in Gichuru v. Smith, 2014 BCCA 414 at paras. 99–100:
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