¶ 5. In accordance with the favorable verdict, contractor filed a motion seeking attorneys’ fees pursuant to 9 V.S.A. § 4007(c), prejudgment interest on the damages awards for breach of contract and conversion, interest under § 4002(d), penalties under § 4007(b), and attorneys’ fees for bad faith litigation if statutory attorneys’ fees were not awarded. After receiving subsequently ordered affidavits, the trial judge awarded prejudgment interest on the breach-of-contract award, but not on the conversion claim, and declined to award attorneys’ fees based upon bad faith litigation. The court found contractor to be the “substantially prevailing party” within the meaning of § 4007(c), but limited its award of attorneys’ fees and interest under the statute to an amount in proportion to that part of the overall judgment that represented recovery of the wrongfully-withheld contract payment. Finding that the contractor received a total judgment award of $6,541, of which $600, or about 10 percent, was for sums wrongfully withheld in violation of the prompt payment act, the court awarded contractor attorneys’ fees only in the amount of $3,745, or approximately 10 percent, of his claimed $37,445.91 total for attorneys’ fees. The court also noted that part of the attorneys’ fees contractor claimed were for legal services in connection with the mediations and ruled it “[in]appropriate to award costs or fees for mediation to [contractor] because both parties are required to participate in mediation per Court order.” Accordingly, the trial court did not award attorneys’ fees for contractor’s breach-of-contract claims and defenses, or for his conversion claim. Contractor now appeals this limitation on attorneys’ fees under § 4007(c), and appeals the trial court’s specific decision to deny attorneys’ fees for mediation-related expenses.