What are the "thin skull" and "crumbling skull" doctrines?
British Columbia, Canada
The following excerpt is from Brooks v Habib, 2019 BCSC 1398 (CanLII):
The “thin skull” and “crumbling skull” doctrines relate to the assessment of damages in tort. The animating principles were reviewed in Athey v. Leonati, [1996] 3 S.C.R. 468 [Athey]:
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