Sentences with phrase «purely tactical purpose»

Finally, the court also added that the remedy can not be granted as a means of augmenting a lack of available statutory relief; nor can it be aimed at vindicating family or personal relationships or at serving a purely tactical purpose.

In Morison v. Ergo - Industrial Seating Systems Inc., 2016 ONSC 6725, for example, the Superior Court awarded the Plaintiff $ 50,000 in punitive damages after finding that the employer's allegation that it terminated the Plaintiff's employment for cause lacked a reasonable basis and was done for purely tactical purposes.