What is the test for apportionment of costs?

British Columbia, Canada


The following excerpt is from 1043325 Ontario Ltd. v. CSA Building Sciences Western Ltd., 2015 BCSC 1545 (CanLII):

The test for the apportionment of costs is well known. In Sutherland v. Canada (Attorney General), 2008 BCCA 27, the court set out the test in what is now R. 14-1(15) at paras. 29-31:

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