Sentences with phrase «using adverse cost awards»

The second is that the court seems hesitant to sanction this behaviour using adverse cost awards.

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I say eliminate the mandatory mediation stage, eliminate the pre-trial stage, greatly shorten discoveries, make better forced use of offers to settle, and make the lawyers analyse their way to early and reasonable settlements or face the consequences of adverse cost awards imposed by a judge annoyed that the file even got to trial.