Tort Law

This text addresses significant new developments in this complex area of legal practice such as the treatment of defamation law in Canada and elsewhere.

Provide an overview of the Canadian law of defamation and a practice guide for lawyers advising on defamation issues or engaged in prosecuting or defending defamation actions.

This volume is a collection of 12 papers reflecting a diverse range of perspectives about the past, present, and potential future of the law of obligations.

This book explores Ontario’s significant changes to the definition of “automatic catastrophic impairment” for children; the issue of discrimination based on geography, and the effect it has on children who are left with inadequate accident benefits coverage; the differences between public and private auto insurance regimes; the regimes currently in place in each province, including the administration, benefits and right to proceed with a tort lawsuit in each jurisdiction; and the inconsistencies in the auto insurance regimes throughout Canada offering solutions that will ensure consistency across the country.

The book first provides an overview of the concepts and theories of economic torts and the parameters of the current law. It then goes on to look at economic loss from all possible causes of action, such as: negligent misstatement, breach of fiduciary duty, breach of confidence, inducing breach of contract, causing economic loss by unlawful means, conspiracy, deliberate misrepresentation (injurious falsehood and deceit), passing-off, negligence and other forms of civil liability.

This legal treatise provides a comprehensive review of this often confusing and misunderstood area of the law of public and private nuisance and strict liability. The source provides commentary and analysis of jurisprudence, offering a coherent overview of the topic and clarifying the law.. As well as identifying the potential types of nuisance that may assist clients.