Cases and Notes Summary for Tort Law

Cases and Notes Summary for Tort Law

CASES AND NOTES SUMMARY FOR TORT LAW University of Alberta, 2015 LAW 440A (Prof. Ubaka Ogbogu) P a g e | 1 P a g e | 2 Table of Contents INTRODUCTION ................................................................................................................................... 8 NUISANCE .............................................................................................................................................. 8 GROUND FOR LIABILITY ................................................................................................................ 8 Appleby v Erie Tobacco Co .............................................................................................................. 8 Rogers v Elliott ................................................................................................................................. 9 The Mayor, etc of Bradford v Pickles ............................................................................................... 9 Hollywood Silver FoxFarm ltd v Emmett....................................................................................... 10 Fontainebleau Hotel Corp v Forty-Five Twenty-Five, Inc .............................................................. 10 Bryant v Lefever .............................................................................................................................. 11 Prah v Maretti.................................................................................................................................. 12 TH Critelli v Lincolm Trusts and Savings Co (1978) ..................................................................... 12 Hunter v Canary Wharf Ltd ............................................................................................................ 13 Shuttleworth v Vancouver General Hospital ................................................................................... 13 Laws v Florinplace Ltd ................................................................................................................... 14 LEGAL PROCESS AND PUBLIC POLICY ..................................................................................... 14 “Privilege, Malice and Intent”, Holmes .......................................................................................... 15 Bamford v Turnley .......................................................................................................................... 15 Miller v Jackson .............................................................................................................................. 15 Kennaway v Thompson .................................................................................................................. 16 Tock v St John’s Metropolitan Area Board ..................................................................................... 17 Antrim Truck Centre Ltd v Ontario (Transportation) ..................................................................... 18 REMEDIES ......................................................................................................................................... 19 Shelfer v City of London Electrical Lighting Co ............................................................................ 19 Canada Paper Co v Brown .............................................................................................................. 19 Black v Canadian Copper Co .......................................................................................................... 20 Spur Industries v Del E Webb Development Co ............................................................................. 20 Spur Feeding Co v Superior Court of Maricopa County ................................................................ 21 LAW AND ECONOMICS .................................................................................................................... 22 INTENTIONAL TORTS AND INFORMED CONSENT ................................................................. 23 Allan v Mount Sinai Hospital ......................................................................................................... 24 Malette v Shulman .......................................................................................................................... 25 Reibl v Hughes ................................................................................................................................ 26 Norberg v Wynrib ........................................................................................................................... 27 CONSEQUENTIALISM AND CAPACITY ...................................................................................... 28 P a g e | 3 H(B) v Alberta (Director of Child Welfare) .................................................................................... 28 PROVOCATION AND SELF – DEFENCE ....................................................................................... 29 Wackett v Calder ............................................................................................................................. 29 DEFENCE OF THIRD PERSON ....................................................................................................... 30 Gambriell v Caparelli ...................................................................................................................... 30 DEFENCE OF PROPERTY ............................................................................................................... 30 DISCIPLINE TO CHILDREN ........................................................................................................... 30 TRESSPASS TO LAND ..................................................................................................................... 31 Turner v Thorne ............................................................................................................................. 31 DEFENCES TO TRESPASS .............................................................................................................. 31 INTENTIONAL INTERFERENCE WITH CHATTELS ................................................................... 31 Pierson v Post .................................................................................................................................. 32 Penfolds Wines Prop. Ltd. v Elliott................................................................................................. 32 STRICT LIABILITY ............................................................................................................................ 32 Rylands v Fletcher ........................................................................................................................... 33 Rickards v Lothian .......................................................................................................................... 34 Read v J Lyons & Co, Ltd ............................................................................................................... 34 VICARIOUS LIABILITY .................................................................................................................. 35 Canadian Pacific Railway v Lockhart ............................................................................................. 37 Lister v Romford Ice and Cold Storage .......................................................................................... 37 London Drugs Ltd v Kuehne & Nagle International Ltd ................................................................ 38 Bazley v Curry ................................................................................................................................ 39 Jacobi v Griffiths ............................................................................................................................. 42 DEFAMATION ..................................................................................................................................... 43 Awan v. Levant ................................................................................................................................ 43 Hill v. Church of Scientology of Toronto ........................................................................................ 46 DEFENCES ........................................................................................................................................ 47 Hay v Platinum Equites Inc. ........................................................................................................... 48 Globe and Mail Ltd. v. Boland ........................................................................................................ 49 Banks v. the Globe and Mail Ltd. et al. ........................................................................................... 50 Vader Zalm v Times Publishers ...................................................................................................... 51 WIC Radio v Simpson .................................................................................................................... 51 MIDTERM EXAM INFORMATION ................................................................................................. 52 NEGLIGENCE GENERALLY ............................................................................................................ 53 FIRST ELEMENT: PROVING THAT THE DEFENDANT’S CONDUCT WAS NEGLIGENT 54 P a g e | 4 Vaughan v Menlove .......................................................................................................................

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