The case illustrates the application of the Hazeldene's Chicken Farm factors to multiple Calderbank offers in a single proceeding, demonstrating that an offer substantially tantamount to capitulation, or one allowing insufficient time for consideration during an active trial, will not be treated as unreasonably rejected. A successful party's costs may be reduced to 80% where the party's witnesses and counsel contributed to an unnecessarily protracted trial, without any requirement for 'high-handed' conduct.
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