Is there any case law that supports the principle that damages for personal injury are predictable and uniform?
Alberta, Canada
The following excerpt is from Goodfellow v. Knight, 1978 CanLII 715 (AB QB):
This is consistent with the dictum of Dickson J. in Andrews v. Grand & Toy Alta. Ltd., 1978 CanLII 1 (SCC), [1978] 2 S.C.R. 229, [1978] 1 W.W.R. 577, 3 C.C.L.T. 225, 83 D.L.R. (3d) 452, 19 N.R. 50, 8 A.R. 182, in which he strongly emphasized the desirability of awards and damages being predictable and being uniform.
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