What are the damages for inducing breach of contract?
Ontario, Canada
The following excerpt is from Drouillard v. Cogeco Cable Inc., 2005 CanLII 26316 (ON SC):
Damages for the tort of inducing breach of contract are said to be “at large”. By this is meant that their assessment is “a matter of impression and not addition”, per Lord Hailsham, L.C. in the case of Broome v. Cassell [1972] A.C. 1027 at p.1072.
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