What are the general damages in a libel action?
Ontario, Canada
The following excerpt is from Foulidis v. Ford, 2012 ONSC 7189 (CanLII):
General damages are compensatory damages which, in a libel action, are awarded primarily to compensate for the harm caused to the plaintiff's reputation by the defamatory publication. Intangible or subjective elements are properly considered, as are the plaintiff's wounded feelings: see Walker v. CFTO Ltd., supra, at p. 111 O.R.
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