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Human rights tribunal can’t award costs: SCC
In a case involving a sexual harassment complaint, the Supreme Court of Canada has ruled that the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal does not have the authority to award legal costs.In Canada (Canadian...
View ArticleMerchant to appeal costs against him
Saskatchewan class action lawyer Tony Merchant says he’ll be appealing a B.C. Supreme Court ruling that leaves him on the hook for costs and a dismissed class action over the propriety of phone...
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An expensive lesson
A Toronto lawyer says he has learned an expensive lesson about not taking clients’ words without a written direction after a judge ordered him to pay nearly $20,000 this week for accepting a settlement...
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Complexity of Tim Hortons class action motion was ‘off the charts’: Strathy
Tim Hortons has been awarded $1.8 million in costs in a franchise class action certification and summary judgment motion dismissed in 2012.In Fairview Donut Inc. v The TDL Group Corp., Tim Hortons had...
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Sukonick, DeMerchant awarded $250K as LSUC ‘should have known’ case became...
Two exonerated Torys LLP lawyers put their legal tabs in defending themselves in Law Society of Upper Canada disciplinary hearings at almost $4 million, but a hearing panel has determined [they’ll each...
View ArticleRare costs order on solicitor-own-client basis
An Alberta Queens Bench judge has made a very rare cost order on full indemnity, solicitor-own-client basis after finding the plaintiffs in a matter deceived the court. The cost award scheme is...
View ArticleLaw prof awarded almost $500,000 in defamation suit
A multi-year defamation suit between two former colleagues at the University of Ottawa has moved one step closer to being resolved.The Ontario Superior Court has ordered former physics professor Denis...
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At least $3 million spent on Douglas inquiry
It’s hard to get precise numbers on how much the Canadian Judicial Council proceedings against Manitoba Court of Queen’s Bench Associate Chief Justice Lori Douglas cost, but numbers from the body...
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Two very different cost consequences at LSUC good-character hearings
As the Law Society Tribunal awards costs of almost $365,000 against Harry Kopyto in relation to his long-running bid for a paralegal licence, it has ordered another practitioner who also went through a...
View ArticleFederal courts seeking feedback on cost awards
Intellectual property lawyers are bracing for change as the federal courts move forward with an effort that could see much higher cost awards as a way of discouraging unnecessary and vexatious...
View ArticleJudge awards rare advance costs to Indian sanatorium school survivor
In what he called a “bizarre and lamentable” motion, an Ontario Superior Court judge has taken the “extra-extra ordinary” measure of awarding $70,000 in advance costs to an aboriginal woman seeking to...
View ArticleLawyer alone authorized to make settlement offer: Divisional Court
A Toronto lawyer says he feels vindicated by a recent Divisional Court decision that overturned a two-year-old ruling against him over a settlement agreement. “I find that the motion judge erred in law...
View ArticleAdvance costs awarded in Alberta child welfare class action
In a rare move, advance costs have been awarded in a class action against the Government of Alberta and Métis Settlements Child and Family Services. “On the merits, I thought this was one of the...
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