What is the general damages for defamation of the Church of Scientology?
British Columbia, Canada
The following excerpt is from Farallon Mining Ltd. v. Arnold, 2011 BCSC 1532 (CanLII):
General damages in defamation cases are presumed from the very publication of the false statement and are awarded at large: Hill v. Church of Scientology, 1995 CanLII 59 (SCC), [1995] 2 S.C.R. 1130 (“Church of Scientology”), at para. 164.
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