What is the test for determining who is the successful party in a personal injury case?
British Columbia, Canada
The following excerpt is from Lim v Zhu, 2019 BCSC 88 (CanLII):
As Goepel J.A. observed in Loft v. Nat, 2014 BCCA 108, at para. 46: At its most basic level the successful party is the plaintiff who establishes liability under a cause of action and obtains a remedy, or a defendant who obtains a dismissal of the plaintiff’s case.
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