What is the standard of review for a costs order?
British Columbia, Canada
The following excerpt is from Wright v. Sun Life Assurance Company of Canada, 2019 BCCA 18 (CanLII):
I would adopt the respondents’ description of the standard of review of a costs order. The order should be set aside “only if the trial judge has made an error in principle or if the costs award is plainly wrong”: Hamilton v. Open Window Bakery Ltd., 2004 SCC 9 at para. 27.
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