What are the damages for defamation in English?
British Columbia, Canada
The following excerpt is from Vogel v. Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, 1982 CanLII 801 (BC SC):
In considering the appropriate scale of damages, the amounts awarded in Cassell v. Broome, supra, and other English cases are of limited assistance because, historically, the level of defamation awards in England appears to have been consistently higher than in Canada.
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