What is the effect of a "one-size-fits-all" method of assessing damages in sports law?

British Columbia, Canada


The following excerpt is from Dilello v. Montgomery, 2005 BCCA 56 (CanLII):

I add remarks of my own in order to expand on what I said in Giang v. Clayton, 2005 BCCA 54, on what I there called the "one-size-fits-all method" of assessing damages.

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