Litigants sometimes believe they must allege maximal goals if they are going to achieve their actual objective. If you needed a fresh caution against overreaching, the costs ruling in Guttin v. Creber, 2026 ONSC 4507, delivers it. After an oppression dispute involving B Con Engineering Inc. and BCE Realty Ltd., the Ontario Superior Court fixed costs against the notionally successful applicants. This was because, despite the applicants’ limited success on disclosure and sale process issues, their big ticket allegations and remedies did not land.