Sentences with phrase «legal costs award»

The Court of Appeal has upheld a double legal costs award against the Province of British Columbia after the Province lost a claim against a private BC company (British Columbia v. Salt Spring Ventures Incorporated, 2015 BCCA 343).

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A Quebec Superior Court judge awarded a group of Dunkin' Donuts franchisees $ 16.4 million in damages, plus legal costs, after ruling that parent company Dunkin' Brands failed to heed 15 years» worth of warnings that Tim Hortons was poised to topple the U.S. chain's long - held dominance of the Quebec market.

The Ontario Court of Appeal recently upheld a decision to award GasTOPS (a company that provides engineering consulting services for maintaining jet engines and develops software to assess engine performance) $ 12 million, plus interest and legal costs.

C corporations can also deduct fringe benefits such as qualified education costs, group term life insurance up to $ 50,000 per employee, employer - provided vehicles and public transportation passes, pre-paid legal assistance, child and dependent care, discounts on company products and services, and qualified achievement awards.

If you are involved in an incident causing injury or property damage that was (or is alleged to have been) your fault your insurance cover may indemnify you in respect of the legal costs of defending a third party claim and any resulting damages awarded against you.

Only an infantile lawyer like Okudzeto Ablakwa would refuse to cut his losses as I did when he knows that governments in Ghana do not pay for any fees associated with filing and prosecuting civil cases except legal costs, damages, and other awards.

You agree to indemnify and keep indemnified Us against any and all losses, proceedings, lost profits, damages, awards, expenses, costs (including increased administration and legal costs on a full indemnity basis), claims, actions and any other losses or liabilities suffered by Us and arising from or relating to Your use of the service, information and / or other material posted on the Service by You and / or arising from or due to any breach of contract, any tortious act and / or omission and / or any breach of statutory due by You.

11.5 You undertake to indemnify us and keep us at all times fully indemnified from and against all actions, proceedings, claims, demands, costs (including without prejudice to the generality of this provision our legal costs), awards and damages however arising directly or indirectly as a result of any breach or non-performance by you of any of your undertakings, warranties or obligations under these terms and conditions.

These awards help to offset the cost of your legal education while making a wide array of legal jobs possible.

In a decision that could have major effects on the process of authenticating artworks in the United States, a New York Supreme Court judge has dismissed a lawsuit against Pace Gallery founder Arne Glimcher and the Agnes Martin catalogue raisonné committee, and awarded them the cost of their legal fees, Artnet News reported.

The judge also awarded Pace and the committee members the full cost of their legal fees.

The Washington Supreme Court held that a full award of all costs and fees, including expert expenses, was justified where the surety compelled King County to assume the burden of legal action to obtain the benefit of the performance bond.

Neille Ryan, partner at Furley Page, said: «Whiplash awards will be slashed to a few hundred pounds and almost no legal costs will be recoverable by most claimants, who will have to pay lawyers themselves out of their damages, or take on the insurer and their solicitors alone.»

It is increasingly necessary to provide evidence to the court as to the amount of the actual legal fees, versus what ordinary costs would amount to, so as to persuade the court that it may be unjust if special costs or increased costs were not awarded.

The court found that the actual legal fees incurred were approximately $ 165,000, while costs at scale 3 awarded only $ 36,300, and costs at scale 4 (now abolished) only $ 45,250.

This development is unfortunate in that the Courts now have one less discretionary tool with which to fashion cost awards that approach the appropriate level of indemnity for legal fees incurred.

Unfortunately, the amount of costs awarded is usually in the range of 20 - 25 % of the actual amount of legal fees incurred.

Cost awards are the amount of monies that a Court awards one litigant against another as a contribution towards legal fees incurred.

The successful party is usually awarded costs, but this does not mean the other side will pay all of their legal fees.

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.

But this challenge and the court's unexpected turn - about on awarding costs have added thousands more in legal expenses.

The proof of that future loss is sometimes a difficult task and usually involves medical assessment and / or actuarial assessment); d. past care cost (if you have spend money for your medical care that was made medically necessary owing to ICBC motor vehicle accident injury then you can expect to collect a sum of money equivalent to those reasonable treatment and medication costs please ensure that you keep the receipts and seek prior medical approval to eventually prove this loss); e. future care costs (if you will suffer repeated medical expenses in the future owing to your motor vehicle accident ICBC injury claim then you can collect a sum of money equivalent to that future loss); f. out of pocket expenses or «special damages» (if you suffer out of pocket expenses like for travel to / from medical appointments, cab fare, parking, etc, then this is also recoverable by you but again — keep track of these expenses in a log and keep a receipt book for later proof of this loss); g. legal costs (sum of the legal costs associated with advancing your injury claim are recoverable as the court system recognizes that often legal experts, lawyers and their agents are a necessary part of the process); h. other categories of damages: not discussed here are other categories of damages like «in trust claims» made largely for those who relatives who take care of you while you are recovering from your injuries or things like «loss of ability to enter an economically interdependent relationship» which might be awarded to a seriously disfigured potential spouse for his / her unlikely ability to become married in the future.

In its ruling, Supreme Court justices Louis LeBel and Thomas Cromwell wrote: «In our view, the text, context, and purpose of the legislation clearly show that there is no authority in the Tribunal to award legal costs and that there is no other reasonable interpretation of the relevant provisions.

One (relatively trivial) example I regular cite of evidence that legal research is important are the various court decisions cited in Chapter 1 of my legal research book where courts have awarded costs for conducting online legal research.

The Attorney General of Canada applied for judicial review at the Federal Court regarding the tribunal's jurisdiction to award legal costs.

The Bench FZE's creative business model that helps cut legal costs and gives lawyers a greater share of client fees saw it grab the innovation award title.

The court made an award to the half - sister; legal costs swallowed most of the money.

Robert's brother, Vincent, was earlier awarded # 3m in damages and # 3m in legal costs by the SFO.

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Unfortunately, under the LAT rules there is no discretion to award legal costs to a successful claimant unless it is established that the insurer acted «unreasonably, frivolously, vexatiously or in bad faith», which is an extremely difficult hurdle to overcome.

Until the new UAE Federal Arbitration Law is enacted, enforcing an onshore Dubai - seated arbitration award through the Dubai courts will continue to be fraught with difficulties, including uncertainty (there is no system of binding precedent in the UAE), significant delay (enforcement proceedings can take up to three years), and costs (legal costs are not recoverable in the Dubai Courts).

After applying the various established factors that must be considered in awarding costs (including the importance and complexity of the issues, and the unreasonableness of each spouse's behavior in the case), and after considering additional factors including any possible financial hardship that might be endured by the husband, the court concluded that $ 950,000 in legal costs incurred by the wife should be paid by the him, plus pre-judgment interest of another $ 55,000.

[29] Self - represented litigants whose aim it is to protract court proceedings to force the other side to expend significant resources on legal costs due to scurrilous allegations that are without any evidentiary foundation and are entirely irrelevant to the issue before the Court will meet the hammer of a cost's award.

Moreover, while costs awards are intended to make a successful litigant whole, costs in the Federal Court are determined in accordance with the Federal Courts Rules, which prescribe fixed dollar amounts for various steps in the litigation process regardless of the actual costs incurred: Litigants can only expect to recover approximately 25 per cent of their actual legal costs in complex cases.

Citing Indiana Code Section 31 -17-2-15, it ruled that because the parents could communicate without being hostile, it would be in the best interests of the children to award joint legal custody, as well as overnight stays on Sundays, and additionally reduced his support payments from about $ 250 a week to $ 150 a week, based on the increased amount of time he was spending with the children and the fact that the mother's pay had increased and the cost of child care had gone down.

In this personal injury case involving two motor accidents occurring 6 months apart (Wang v. Dhaliwal, 2014 BCSC 1662) the court awarded two set of legal costs totaling $ 13,000 in addition to the $ 59,000 out of court settlement.

ICBC opposed arguing that the arbitrator «has no jurisdiction to award costs that would include legal fees ad disbursements in the Washington State action ``.

Dealing first with the issue of the nature of costs that I can properly award, I find that as a result of section 148.2 (2) and section 148.2 (3) of the Regulation, I am constrained to only awarding party and party costs and I am not permitted to award actual reasonable legal fees as specified in section 11 (2)(a) of the Commercial Arbitration Act.

In a stunning act of judicial deference this keen use of the broad discretion to award costs has allowed a personal injury claimant to recovery the legal costs of a claim despite dismissal of the action.

A lawyer who sued her former client for $ 3,937.50 for unpaid legal fees has had $ 7,000 in costs awarded against her, and the matter has yet to reach trial.

In lengthy reasons, the Law Society of Upper Canada appeal panel halved the sanction imposed on Joe Groia, eliminated the costs award against him (with a new costs award to be determined through a subsequent proceeding), and reversed many of the legal determinations made in the original panel.

He recovered a damages award and costs that together totalled 30,000 pounds less than his legal bill.

The award comes on the back of the firm's success at the 2015 Legal Innovation Awards, when it was recognised for the development of an iPhone app that allows clients to view documents, keep track of costs, pay bills online, diarise key dates and contact their lawyers.

A recent family law decision applied the existing legal principles relating to the awarding of legal costs to self - represented litigants.

In addition, the tribunal awarded her legal costs, in the amount of $ 47,000.

[67] Finally, reference to provincial and territorial legislation tended «to confirm the view that the word «costs» is used consistently when the intention is to confer the authority to award legal costs.»

There are no submissions, or black tie dinners that cost thousands of dollars to attend - the awards are handed to the elite legal practitioners, based on the most comprehensive research into the US legal market.

The award amounted to twenty (20) months» notice, and the employer was also ordered to pay Ms. Brake's substantial legal costs, which the Ottawa Citizen reported to be «$ 120,000.»

Altus Group Ltd. now faces the prospect of not only paying a $ 100,000.00 punitive damage award, wrongful dismissal damages and Gordon's legal costs but also dealing with the reputational damage of having been publicly punished for having engaged in a highly unethical business practice.

[55] Many tribunals have the power to award expenses, and a finding that the human rights tribunal is entitled to award legal costs would surely resonate throughout federal and provincial administrative structures.