Sentences with phrase «more aggravated damages»

Not exact matches

This damage may be aggravated by boxing gloves since they add weight and thus energy to punches, causing more rotational acceleration.

Caution is warranted given the small number of cases in the 1973 - 83 data, but the data seem to suggest that it was much more common for courts to award aggravated damages in defamation cases between 2003 - 13 than between 1973 - 83.

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.

Since then, Canadian courts have become more open to (but still very cautious about) awarding aggravated damages in situations where employment contracts have been breached, which in turn caused mental anguish or distress to the employee.

Where actual malice is more useful in the Canadian context is in the award of aggravated damages,

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.