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Customer and Product Data Bill

Regulatory and enforcement matters - Civil liability - Relationship between proceedings and orders

88: More than 1 civil liability remedy may be given for same conduct

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“Courts can give different types of punishments for the same wrong action”

The new law would say that if someone does something wrong, the court can give more than one type of punishment or make them fix their mistake in different ways, even if it’s for the same thing they did. For example, the court might make the person pay money to someone they hurt, and also make them pay a fine. This means the court has different options to make sure the person is held responsible for what they did.

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Part 4 Regulatory and enforcement matters
Civil liability: Relationship between proceedings and orders

88More than 1 civil liability remedy may be given for same conduct

  1. The court may grant a civil liability remedy of one kind against a person even though the court has granted another civil liability remedy of a different kind against the person for the same conduct.

    Example

    The court may make a compensatory order and a pecuniary penalty order for the same conduct.