What is the test for a remedy for breach of reasonable expectations?

Nova Scotia, Canada


The following excerpt is from Tri-Mac Holdings Inc. v Ostrom, 2018 NSSC 177 (CanLII):

Wood J. referred to the decision of Warner J. in Merks Poultry Farms Limited v. Wittenberg, 2010 NSSC 278 at paras. 293 and 294 where Justice Warner found that some of the alleged breaches of the claimant’s reasonable expectations were established, but he refused to grant a remedy due to the absence of any significant harm.

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