The plaintiff would receive its partial indemnity costs until the date of the defendant's offer, but offset by the defendant's
substantial indemnity fees thereafter.
In addition, he rejected the plaintiffs» argument about proportionality, noting that after his reductions, the total recoverable
substantial indemnity fees would amount to $ 282,000 or about 45 per cent of the
substantial indemnity fees the plaintiffs claimed they had incurred.
Not exact matches
Vigna claimed
substantial indemnity for $ 68,250 as a self - represented lawyer, $ 26,434.54 for
fees from Heenan Blaikie, and disbursements of $ 7,516, for a global cost award from $ 50,000 — $ 65,000.
The jury had awarded damages of $ 350,000, St. Lewis asked the court to award her costs on a
substantial indemnity scale of $ 552,706.56 for
fees and $ 55,305.97 for disbursements plus HST.
After the owner sought to discontinue the action, the corporation sought to obtain from the owner
substantial indemnity costs in the amount of $ 77,497 representing legal
fees, disbursements and HST expended by the corporation in the litigation, including $ 20,000 spent in response to the owner's motion to produce and preserve the proxies.
In the case of a Plaintiff, where the Plaintiff makes an offer to settle and where the judgment ultimately obtained is as or more favourable than said offer, the Plaintiff will be entitled to costs on a partial
indemnity basis (usually around 60 % — 65 % of the total legal
fees and reasonable disbursements incurred) to the date on which the offer was made, in addition to costs on a
substantial indemnity basis (usually around 90 % of the total legal
fees and reasonable disbursements incurred) thereafter.