What is the legal test for calculating damages in a personal injury case?
British Columbia, Canada
The following excerpt is from Yannacopoulos v. Cronk, 2015 BCSC 1154 (CanLII):
The assessment of damages is a matter of judgment based upon the evidence, not a mathematical calculation: Rosvold v. Dunlop, 2001 BCCA 1 at para. 18. The approach to be taken by the court was described as follows in that judgment by Huddart J.A, for the court, at para. 11:
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