What is the quantum of punitive damages awarded against the Church of Scientology?
Ontario, Canada
The following excerpt is from Davidson v. Noram Capital Management Inc., 2005 CanLII 63766 (ON SC):
Punitive damages are an extraordinary remedy, to be awarded in situations where the defendant’s misconduct is so malicious, oppressive and high-handed that it offends the court’s sense of decency. They are awarded by a court to express its outrage at a defendant’s egregious conduct: Hill v. Church of Scientology of Toronto, 1995 CanLII 59 (SCC), [1995] 2 S.C.R. 1130 (S.C.C.) at para. 196.
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