Is there any case law that supports the proposition that a plaintiff has a valid claim to be entitled to sue for damages?
British Columbia, Canada
The following excerpt is from Cortés v. Yorkton Securities Inc., 2007 BCSC 282 (CanLII):
Both of those propositions were made clear by Major J. in Beals v. Saldanha, [2003] 3 S.C.R. 416, 2003 SCC 72. The detailed facts of the case are more relevant to the following section of this judgment, but I will set them out here to put the case in context.
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