Is the compensation principle applied strictly or inflexibly?
Ontario, Canada
The following excerpt is from Flammia v. Royal Glen Eagle, 2014 ONSC 7522 (CanLII):
In IBM v. Waterman, Cromwell J. for the majority explained at paragraph 35, that the compensation principle cannot be, and is not, applied strictly or inflexibly in a manner that is divorced from other considerations.
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