Law 2101 Lecture 19: Employment Law 3

• School: Western University
• Department: Law
• Course: Law 2101
• Professor: Mysty Sybil Clapton

Document Summary

Reasonable notice (or pay in lieu of notice) Categories of independent actionable wrongs (required for punitive damages) Keays was terminated after 14 years of employment, and he sued for wrongful dismissal. At trial: 15 months reasonable notice + 9 months reasonable notice (wallace damages) + ,000 punitive damages. Court of appeal: upheld reasonable notice and reduced punitive damages to ,000. Compensatory damages for breach of contract should be assessed only by the rule in hadley v. baxendale. Hadley test explains why damages may be awarded where an object of contract is to secure a psychological benefit, just as they may be awarded where object of contract is to secure a material one. There was no evidence to support his allegation of a corporate conspiracy. T(cid:28667)(cid:28664) (cid:28675)(cid:28677)(cid:28674)(cid:28661)(cid:28671)(cid:28664)(cid:28672) (cid:28675)(cid:28664)(cid:28677)(cid:28668)(cid:28674)(cid:28663) (cid:28663)(cid:28668)(cid:28663)(cid:28673)"(cid:28679) (cid:28662)(cid:28674)(cid:28673)(cid:28679)(cid:28668)(cid:28673)(cid:28680)(cid:28664) (cid:28665)(cid:28674)(cid:28677) 5 y(cid:28664)(cid:28660)(cid:28677)(cid:28678), (cid:28668)(cid:28679) (cid:28682)(cid:28660)(cid:28678) (cid:28673)(cid:28674) (cid:28672)(cid:28674)(cid:28677)(cid:28664) (cid:28679)(cid:28667)(cid:28660)(cid:28673) 7 (cid:28672)(cid:28674)(cid:28673)(cid:28679)(cid:28667)(cid:28678) When the contract was formed, there would not ordinarily be contemplation of psychological damage.