Sentences with phrase «aggravated damages at»

NatWest had already offered Tom Brennan # 3,000 but he was seeking aggravated damages at the City of London County Court for stress and exemplary damages for «deliberate, malicious or negligent» behaviour.

Not exact matches

According to the Minister in a suit number 6 / 577/2016, filed at the High Court of the federal Capital territory in the Abuja Judicial Division, is seeking among others, payment of an aggravated damages to the tune of N3billion, (N2 billion against Lere Olayinka, the first defendant and another N1bilion aggravated damages against Dr Omotoso, the second defendant).

Dearden threatened that the presence of members of the public at the hearing would be used for «malice purposes and aggravated damages and punitive damages» against the defendant.

These types of damages (aggravated and punitive damages) will not be awarded simply because an employer asserts or continues to assert at trial, that it has cause for termination.

[22] Considering and weighing all the evidence, the trauma that the plaintiff experienced, the permanent damage to his eye which causes him to suffer on occasion from double vision and is suffering from Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder («PTSD») and is at an increased risk of anxiety and depresic disorder, I am satisfied that an appropriate award including aggravated damages is the sum of $ 50,000.

If there is unfair conduct at the time of termination, such as unfair allegations of serious wrongdoing, a claim may be made for «aggravated damages».

It found that RTE was 35 % responsible and Mr. Costello was 65 % responsible for the defamation and assessed damages at $ 10,000, with no aggravated damages.

The article looks at whether the Ontario courts are increasingly using punitive damages as a vehicle to award former employee's compensation for «bad faith» employer conduct in dismissal, as aggravated damages (arguably the more appropriate vehicle) are more difficult to attain.

Given the escalating nature of Morris» assaults of the plaintiff, the Court fixed general damages at $ 90,000, inclusive of aggravated damages.

If aggravated damages are to be awarded, there must be a finding that the defendant was motivated by actual malice: Hill, supra, at para. 190.

Both appellants (Austin and Saxby) claimed damages for distress and also aggravated and exemplary damages, at common law in the tort of false imprisonment and under the Human Rights Act 1998, s 7 for alleged unlawful detention, contrary to their Art 5 Convention rights, essentially arguing that they should have been released from the police cordon much earlier than they were.

That's because with aggravated damages, the victim is em - powered to seek or not seek such damages; Type II errors are more likely, since the victim - vindication model doesn't purport to restrict the plaintiff from either forbearing from seek - ing punitive damages or to settle at an amount lower than what is necessary to signal to the defendant to forbear from such misconduct in the future.

Reasons for judgement were released last week by the BC Supreme Court, New Westminster Registry, assessing damages for a shoulder injury caused by a motor vehicle collision and subsequently aggravated by an at - work incident.

The court took the view, as in Goswell, that while damages for psychological injury did partly compensate the appellant, for the after - effects of her ordeal, they did not fully compensate her for humiliation she had suffered at the time of the incident — an important factor for counsel to consider when pleading both aggravated damages and psychological injury.

[22] The respondent's conversation with the employee at the paint store in which he concealed the real reason for the damage to his vehicle is an aggravating factor.