How to measure an award in a personal injury case?

British Columbia, Canada


The following excerpt is from McLeod v. Goodman, 2014 BCSC 839 (CanLII):

Awards made in comparable cases can be helpful to measure such an award, but as each case depends on its own unique facts, caselaw can serve only as a rough guide: Trites v. Penner, 2010 BCSC 882 at paras. 118-119.

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