Sentences with phrase «modest damages award»

However, the modest damages award in this case, and others, have still made online defamation a challenging area for plaintiffs.

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Where the damages awarded after a long trial are modest, it is possible for the adverse cost award to exceed the amount of damages, meaning that the plaintiff's personal assets are at risk.

although the CA commented that it was likely that individual awards of compensation would be relatively modest (so far they have been in the low thousands of pounds), there could be a growth of class actions in which a large number of individuals have suffered emotional distress or invasion of privacy, leading to larger overall damages awards;

She awarded a «modest» award considering the application was brought under Simplified Rules, and awarded general damages of $ 50,000.

And in this case, where the modest damages and 95 % of the huge costs will be borne presumably by the management company (unless their solicitors ran the defence on a conditional fee arrangement), the claimant will theoretically end up paying a percentage of the costs award herself out of her share of the management fund, added to which inter-lessee relations will hardly have been improved by this appreciable charge to the fund to which all must contribute.

Punitive damage awards in other wrongful dismissal cases have been far more modest even in the face of serious misconduct such as slander of the employee.

Mr. Justice Wilson largely rejected ICBC's arguments and made a modest deduction of $ 2,000 of the awarded damages.

After Boucher, such punitive awards may not be grossly excessive or irrational where the conduct is egregious and compensatory damages are modest.