What is the legal test for awarding a person with lost faculties money?
Manitoba, Canada
The following excerpt is from Braun v. Vaughan, 2000 CanLII 17227 (MB CA):
62 Therefore: Money is awarded, not because lost faculties have a dollar value, but because money can be used to substitute other enjoyments and pleasures for those that have been lost. [Lindal v. Lindal, 1981 CanLII 35 (SCC), [1981] 2 S.C.R. 629 at 636 per Dickson J., as he then was.]
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