What is the quantum of damages awarded by the Court of Appeal against the Church of Scientology?
Ontario, Canada
The following excerpt is from Mandel v. Fakhim, 2018 ONSC 7580 (CanLII):
The jury’s award is not so grossly out of proportion as to shock the court’s conscience and sense of justice: Hill v. Church of Scientology, 1995 CanLII 59 (SCC), [1995] 2 S.C.R. 1130, at para. 159. Deference must be accorded. This ground of appeal is rejected. Issue 4: Did the trial judge err in failing to determine the issue of “threshold” impairment?
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