Damages (VCE SSCE Legal Studies): Flashcards

Monetary compensation ordered by court to plaintiff

Restorative - return to pre-wrong position

Compensatory, exemplary, nominal, contemptuous

Compensate precisely calculable financial losses

Compensate non-quantifiable losses (pain, loss of amenity)

When conduct caused extreme humiliation/embarrassment

Punish defendant & deter similar future conduct

Cannot be awarded

Small sum - rights infringed but no substantial loss

Smallest award - legal but no moral entitlement