Is a plaintiff entitled to a capital asset approach when there is no clear earnings history?
British Columbia, Canada
The following excerpt is from Lamont v Prat, 2021 BCSC 1294 (CanLII):
The plaintiff submits that the capital asset approach should not be restricted to those cases where there is no clear earnings history. He submits that the overriding factor is whether the loss is not measurable in a pecuniary way: Dabu v. Schwab, 2016 BCSC 613 at para. 73.
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