What is the test for punitive damages in a Scientology case?
Ontario, Canada
The following excerpt is from Stranges v. Allstate Insurance Company of Canada, 2007 CanLII 10215 (ON SC):
Punitive damages are awarded against a defendant in exceptional cases for “malicious, oppressive and high-handed” misconduct that “offends the court’s sense of decency”. See Hill v. Church of Scientology of Toronto, 1995 CanLII 59 (SCC), [1995] 2 S.C.R. 1130.
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