What is the double cost rule?
British Columbia, Canada
The following excerpt is from Miller v Resurreccion, 2019 BCSC 2066 (CanLII):
The purpose of the double cost rule is to encourage the early settlement of disputes by rewarding a party who makes a reasonable settlement offer and penalizing the party who declines to accept such an offer: Hartshorne v. Hartshorne, 2011 BCCA 29 at para. 25.
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