Does a plaintiff have a claim for damages in a wrongful dismissal case?
Alberta, Canada
The following excerpt is from Grant v. ISM Information Systems Management (Alberta) Corp., 1998 ABQB 467 (CanLII):
In a minority judgment, Seaton, J.A. stated at p.456: I think that this was an ordinary wrongful dismissal case and that "the dismissed servant's remedy must lie only in damages and that he could not sue in debt for remuneration under the contract in respect of any period after his employment had actually ceased": ... (He cited Denmark Productions v. Boscobel Productions Ltd., [1969] 1 Q.B. 699 as authority for this proposition).
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