How do you measure a loss?

British Columbia, Canada


The following excerpt is from Javier v. Hooper, 2014 BCSC 1253 (CanLII):

Quantifying a loss may be aided by some mathematical calculation, but there is no particular formula. As stated in Rosvold v. Dunlop, 2001 BCCA 1:

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