What is the test for general damages in a personal injury case?

Ontario, Canada


The following excerpt is from Litwinenko v. Beaver Lumber Company, 2006 CanLII 28740 (ON SC):

In the words of the trial judge in Daly v. General Steam Navigation Co. Ltd., [1980] 3 All E.R. 696,: I have considered first whether it is right to treat the plaintiff's partial loss of housekeeping capacity as a separate head of damage, or whether it should be regarded only as one element in the loss of the amenities of life for which general damages have to be awarded.

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