8.01-266 - Costs. - Virginia Statutes

§ 8.01-266. Costs.

In any action which is transferred or retained for trial pursuant to thischapter, the court in which the action is initially brought may award anamount necessary to compensate a party for such inconvenience, expense, anddelay as he may have been caused by the commencement of the suit in a forumto which an objection, pursuant to § 8.01-264, is sustained or by thebringing of a frivolous motion to transfer. In addition, the court may awardthose attorney's fees deemed just and reasonable which are occasioned by suchcommencement of a suit or by such motion to transfer. The awarding of suchcosts by the transferor court shall not preclude the assessment of costs bythe clerk of the transferee court.

(1977, c. 617; 1994, c. 32.)