MCS 3040 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Contingent Fee, Alternative Dispute Resolution

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Marketing and Consumer Studies
• Course: MCS 3040
• Professor: Joseph Radocchia

Document Summary

Costs: party-and-party costs, partial indemnity costs, entitled to costs on a partial scale, generally half, general rule, every litigant has a right to have their case heard, shouldn"t be penalize for participating in that process. Damages are awarded at k. they did worse than both settlements, so for costs the plaintiff would either get no costs or get partial costs from before offers . Or could even have to pay the costs of the defendants. ex. claim k, after discovery offer made for k, counter offer made of k, both offers were rejected. Go to trial, plaintiff wins and is entitled to damages. Damages are awarded at k. they spend k before the offers were made and k after the offers were made. So if the interest is , and the costs are ( k from after and k from before offer. @partial costs) then the total damages awarded would be k.