"This highly regarded casebook provides a detailed examination of every major area of Canadian tort law. For each topic there are clear explanatory introductions, concise extracts of key judicial decisions and statutes, editorial discussions, detailed notes, questions and references to the literature, and review problems. The tenth edition of Cases and Materials on the Law of Torts retains the qualities and features of the previous edition and has added: recent Supreme Court of Canada decisions on negligent misrepresentation, reasonable foreseeability, and recovery for psychiatric harm. New sections on the nature of damage in negligence, and losses beyond the scope of the risk. Updated analysis of waivers and exclusion clauses, defamation cases decided pursuant to anti-SLAPP legislation, the conversion of cheques, cyber-bullying and the non-consensual recording and distribution of intimate images. Updated discussion of the use of deadly force in defence of property, the use of drones in the context of privacy and trespass to airspace, the illegality defence, nuisance, conspiracy, the unlawful means tort, and Charter damages. New review problems and updates notes that include many recentcases and articles."--Quatrième de couverture.
... Liu Chong Hing Bank Ltd [1986] AC80 at 193) doubted that 'there was anything to the advantage of the law's development in searching for a liability in tort where the parties are in a contractual relationship'.
This was established in Malone v Laskey (1907) and confirmed by the House of Lords in Hunter v Canary Wharf. Hunter v Canary Wharf [1996] 1 All ER 482 FACTS: A private nuisance action was brought against the developers of the Canary ...
Lord Pearson , Baker v Willoughby , at 496 I think a solution of the theoretical problem can be found in cases such as this by taking a comprehensive and unitary view of the damage caused by the original accident .
Rosenberg, 90 Md. App. 158, 600 A.2d 882 (1990), rev'd, 328 Md. 664, 616 A.2d 866 (1992) (see note 48, infra). See also Peroutka v. ... Sears, 163 Md. App. 220, 878 A.2d 628 (2005). 40 Compare former Md. Rule 342c 2(h) with Md. Rule ...
The book also incorporates comment on the implications of the Human Rights Act 1998 for the law of torts.
(Per Lord Upjohn in London Passenger Transport Board v Upson [1949] AC 155, 168.) Discuss the approach taken by the courts to determine when a tortious remedy will be permitted to redress a breach of a statutory duty when the statute ...
The authors designed this book on current education research.
Confirmed in Garner v Salford County Council [2013] where the claim failed for lack of evidence that the defendant's negligence exposed the claimant to more than minimal levels of asbestos. The opposite conclusion was reached, ...
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