This is HUGE news!
"A tort is a legal term for a civil claim that allows a person to ask for damages because someone else caused them harm.
The new tort [...] seeks to compensate the qualitatively different wrong of coercive control, and the qualitatively different harm of loss of autonomy"
In a long-anticipated landmark decision, the Supreme Court of Canada has ruled in favor of recognizing a new legal means for a victim of intimate partner violence to seek financial damages.
