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04-20-2007, 04:22 PM
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http://www.mytelus.com/ncp_news/article.en.do?pn=regional/british_columbia&articleID=2631137
Shoplifter awarded $12,000 in damages
(CBC) - An admitted shoplifter has been awarded $12,000 for injuries he suffered during an altercation with a security guard and a store manager at a Superstore in B.C.'s Lower Mainland nearly three years ago. Daniel Baines admitted in court that he was trying to steal more than $100 worth of razor blades from the Superstore in Delta in August 2004.
The two employees grabbed him by the arm as he tried to leave the store. Baines tried to pull away, and the three men began to struggle.
All three ended up stumbling down the stairs, and Baines got kicked and punched during the altercation that led to his arrest.
He lost a tooth, and said he can no longer chew properly or speak properly.
Baines sued the store, claiming the use of force against him was not justified.
The store's lawyer argued that Baines was the author of his own misfortune; that when he stole the razors he should have expected to get stopped, and that Baines shouldn't have resisted when the security guard grabbed him.
In the end, B.C. Supreme Court Justice William Ehrcke ruled Baines did not deserve to be kicked or punched, and assessed damages at $15,000.
But he also decided that Baines was partly at fault, assessing his responsibility for his injuries at 20 per cent, reducing the award by $3,000.
http://www.mytelus.com/ncp_news/article.en.do?pn=regional/british_columbia&articleID=2631137
Shoplifter awarded $12,000 in damages
(CBC) - An admitted shoplifter has been awarded $12,000 for injuries he suffered during an altercation with a security guard and a store manager at a Superstore in B.C.'s Lower Mainland nearly three years ago. Daniel Baines admitted in court that he was trying to steal more than $100 worth of razor blades from the Superstore in Delta in August 2004.
The two employees grabbed him by the arm as he tried to leave the store. Baines tried to pull away, and the three men began to struggle.
All three ended up stumbling down the stairs, and Baines got kicked and punched during the altercation that led to his arrest.
He lost a tooth, and said he can no longer chew properly or speak properly.
Baines sued the store, claiming the use of force against him was not justified.
The store's lawyer argued that Baines was the author of his own misfortune; that when he stole the razors he should have expected to get stopped, and that Baines shouldn't have resisted when the security guard grabbed him.
In the end, B.C. Supreme Court Justice William Ehrcke ruled Baines did not deserve to be kicked or punched, and assessed damages at $15,000.
But he also decided that Baines was partly at fault, assessing his responsibility for his injuries at 20 per cent, reducing the award by $3,000.