Is a plaintiff entitled to substantial damages in a personal injury action?
British Columbia, Canada
The following excerpt is from Dopf v. Royal Bank of Canada, 1998 CanLII 6494 (BC CA):
Although answering this question "no", and on that aspect I agree with him, Mr. Justice Goldie has held the respondent entitled to substantial damages essentially on the theory of Norberg v. Wynrib, 1992 CanLII 65 (SCC), [1992] 2 S.C.R. 226.
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