What is considered a "small sum" in the context of a claim for damages under the Smallgeese Act?
Yukon, Canada
The following excerpt is from R. v. Murphy, 2017 YKSC 34 (CanLII):
I pause here to observe, as did Charbonneau J. in R v. Smallgeese, 2017 NWTSC 10, at para. 27, that what is a “small sum” is a very relative thing, especially in northern communities.
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