What is the test for aggravated damages in a Scientology case?
Yukon, Canada
The following excerpt is from Simon v. Poirier, 2019 YKSC 56 (CanLII):
Aggravated damages are compensatory in nature. They increase the award of damages to account for the additional harm caused to the plaintiff’s feelings by the reprehensible conduct of the defendant (Hill v. Church of Scientology of Toronto, 1995 CanLII 59 (SCC), [1995] 2 S.C.R. 1130, at para. 189, (“Hill”)).
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