Counsel for the appellant claims that the lower court erred by failing to require the respondent to provide evidence of his losses. In the case of Altenreid v. Coquitlam Diesel, [1990] B.C.J. No. 953 [Altenreid], Fraser J. held: It is a direct and foreseeable consequence of an unlawful seizure that some grief will be visited upon the owner or the owner's agent, for which the owner is entitled to be compensated in damages. In some cases, a reasonably substantial award might be appropriate, as where the owner has suffered anxiety or where having to submit to the unlawful demands of the repairer amounts to an indignity.
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