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lonelywurm: Aug 10, 2009

Broken Knees Club posted:

No, that's just the gunchart.pdf of the legal system.

To be fair, most places in the world follow the English rule, which provides that the loser in a civil suit be liable for the legal costs of the winner. In Canada, this is generally only waived in certain cases as described here:

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An action or motion may be disposed of without costs when the question involved is a new one, not previously decided by the courts on the theory that there is a public benefit in having the court give a decision; or where it involves the interpretation of a new or ambiguous statute; or a new or uncertain or unsettled point of practice; or where there were no previous authoritative rulings by courts; or decided cases on point; or where the application concerned a matter of public interest and both parties acted in complete good faith ... or where the action was a test case; or where it was desirable to resolve a conflict in the case law.

In fact, I didn't realize the U.S. didn't have a system like this until I looked it up. Such a system really isn't the end of the world, since America's about the only country that differs from it.

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