What is the legal test for solicitor and client costs?
Ontario, Canada
The following excerpt is from Audziss v. Santa, 2003 CanLII 6340 (ON SC):
In Young v. Young, 1993 CanLII 34 (SCC), [1993] 4 S.C.R. 3, it was held that solicitor and client costs are generally awarded only where there has been reprehensible, scandalous or outrageous conduct on the part of one of the parties.
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