What is the range of damages for personal injury sustained by a libel action?
Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada
The following excerpt is from Campbell v. Tremblay, 2010 NLCA 62 (CanLII):
In McCarey v. Associated Newspapers Ltd., [1964] 3 All E.R. 947, at p. 959, Diplock, L.J., as he then was, classified the injury sustained by a libel under two heads: (i) the consequences of the attitude adopted to him by other persons as a result of the diminution of the esteem in which they hold him because of the defamatory statement, and (ii) the grief and annoyance caused by the defamatory statement to the plaintiff himself. He added, “it is damages under this second head which may be aggravated by the manner in which, or the motives with which, the statement was made or persisted in”.
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