What is the test for the purpose of compensating an injured person for the full extent of their injuries?
British Columbia, Canada
The following excerpt is from Laxdal v. Robbins, 2010 BCCA 565 (CanLII):
It is well recognized that a fundamental objective of tort law is to compensate an injured person for the full amount of his or her loss, but not for more than that loss; Athey v. Leonati, 1996 CanLII 183 (SCC), [1996] 3 S.C.R. 458, 140 D.L.R. (4th) 235 at para. 32.
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