Does the principle of mitigation require an injured person to assume a role in which he has no aptitude nor interest?
Nova Scotia, Canada
The following excerpt is from MacIsaac et al. v. Deveaux, 2003 NSSC 111 (CanLII):
Davison J. said in Gaudet v. Doucet (1991), 101 N.S.R. (2d) at page 309 that: The principle of mitigation does not require an injured person to assume a role for which he has no aptitude nor interest.
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