Following a five-day child protection trial where the court's judgment mirrored the respondent mother's formal offer to settle, the mother sought costs against the Children's Aid Society.
The court noted that an award of costs against a Children's Aid Society should be the exception, not the rule, to avoid deterring child welfare professionals from protecting children.
Finding that the Society did not act unreasonably or in bad faith but rather out of an abundance of caution, the court declined to award costs.
