The case provides a useful summary of the principles governing costs apportionment where a party succeeds on some issues but fails on others, particularly in judicial review proceedings with separate administrative law and constitutional law challenges. The anticipated futility of judicial review (because the decision-maker will likely make the same decision) is not a ground for denying costs to the successful party. A Calderbank offer open for only six days was held to be too short in complex proceedings.
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