What is the range of damages for loss of future earning opportunity for a plaintiff who was sexually assaulted by a private security company?

Nova Scotia, Canada


The following excerpt is from L. M.M. v. Nova Scotia (Attorney General), 2010 NSSC 44 (CanLII):

In Blackwater v. Plint, supra, (paras. 93-96), McLachlin C.J.C., for the court, stated that an award of a "conventional" amount for loss of future earning opportunity was appropriate where the plaintiff was disabled from his occupation of logging for reasons other than the sexual assaults, and he lacked the "intellectual capacity to pursue vocational or retraining programs ‘save for the briefest and most practically oriented.'"

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