Recommended Books & Resources

This book explains concepts and describes history and trends in judicial awarding of damages, referring to UK and Canadian cases. Chapter 3 covers personal injury, with reference to concepts such as pecuniary and non-pecuniary losses, loss of earning capacity, and cost of future care. Chapter 6 examines wrongful death.

Compensatory damages, non-compensatory damages, and limiting principles are explained, with reference to cases.

Personal injury damage awards—and the underlying rationales and processes used to determine sums—are explained, described, and critiqued, with reference to leading cases.  
There are chapters on:

• types of damages and special damages
• future loss of working capacity
• future cost of care
• non-pecuniary loss
• collateral benefits
• fatal accident actions
• survival actions
• factual causation
• remoteness of damages

Available in BC Courthouse Libraries with internet access.

This electronic resource includes quantum digests by injured body part. Other categories include loss of future earnings, management fees, and tax gross-up.
Click title to see a how-to guide for this resource.

Discusses cost of care, projected earnings, fatal accident claims, severe disablement, dependency rates and settlement structures.

Digests of cases with awards, arranged by injury, make up this title.

Available in Vancouver and larger regional Courthouse Libraries..

Includes personal injury digests; lists expert witnesses and counsel for cases. Search by injury, age range, gender, and decision date. Click title for a how-to guide for this resource.

Arranged by injured body part and injury, this annual digest summarizes cases from across Canada.

A wide range of situations with explanations, case summaries, and damages awarded are included in this five-volume set. Labelled tabs identify content. An index, a table of statutes, and a table of cases make up the fifth volume.