ADMS 2610 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Vicarious Liability, Qualified Privilege, Tort
22 May 2013
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Tort: the law of actionable wrongs between private individuals (as opposed to criminal law between individual and state) Actionable: recognized at law as something you can sue for. Purpose of damages in tort: to place the plaintiff in the same position it would have been in had the tort not occurred. General: non pecuniary loss, pain and suffering, difficult to quantify precisely. Special: pecuniary, what is easily quantified in dollars and cents. Both general and special are based on compensation to pay for injury or loss. Punitive: to punish, where defendant"s conduct is especially bad, deter that person from behaviour. Exemplary: to make an example, where conduct is outrageous, judgment is to show disapproval of defendant"s conduct, to deter the public. Nominal: small, not compensatory, can be a little as one dollar, *remember, even a monetary award of ,000. 00 can be classed as nominal damages.
