Citing principles from Wallace v. United Grain Growers Ltd., 1997 CanLII 332 (SCC) and Honda Canada Inc. v. Keays, 2008 SCC 39 (CanLII), the Court of Appeal found that, to
receive aggravated damages based on mental distress, an employee is required to demonstrate the manner of dismissal caused injury rising beyond the «normal distress» and «hurt feelings» which ordinarily accompany a dismissal for cause.
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Specifically, the trial court concluded that not
receiving the servicer's response did not cause or
aggravate any of the borrower's claimed
damages.
Counsel for the defendant submitted that as
aggravated damages were purely compensatory and the complainant had already
received an award for psychological injury, there should be no award of
aggravated damages because this would in effect duplicate compensation.