| Vancouver (City) v. Ward | |
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| Hearing: 18 January 2010 Judgment: 23 July 2010 | |
| Full case name | City of Vancouver v. Alan Cameron Ward |
| Citations | 2010 SCC 27, [2010] 2 S.C.R. 28 |
| Prior history | 2-1 judgement for Ward at the British Columbia Court of Appeal.[1] |
| Holding | |
| Damages are justified where they serve the functions of compensation, vindication, and deterrence, and where private law remedies do not adequately compensate the injured party. Countervailing factors such as good governance may require denying damages even where these functions would otherwise be served. | |
| Court membership | |
| Chief Justice | Beverley McLachlin |
| Puisne Justices | Ian Binnie, Louis LeBel, Marie Deschamps, Morris Fish, Rosalie Abella, Louise Charron, Marshall Rothstein, Thomas Cromwell |
| Reasons given | |
| Unanimous reasons by | Chief Justice McLachlin |
| Laws applied | |
| Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms: section 8, section 9, and section 24 | |
Vancouver (City) v. Ward is the leading case on the granting of monetary damages for violations of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.