FMGT4410 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Strict Liability, Privacy Act (Canada), Indictable Offence
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Learning objectives: when you complete chapter 4, you should be able to: Distinguish torts from crimes and breaches of contract. Explain vicarious liability indicating when it may be imposed. Distinguish the torts of assault, battery and trespass to land listing the relevant defences. Describe three torts that deal with wrongful interference with goods (chattels) Contrast the torts of false imprisonment and malicious prosecution, and private and public nuisance. Compare defamation with the tort of injurious falsehood. Interference with economic relations: conspiracy to injure. Intimidation: deceit (fraudulent misrepresentation, passing-off, misuse of confidential information. Identify torts frequently committed in the online environment. The nature of torts: a social wrong (not necessarily a crime, a civil wrong (between individuals, when an intentional or careless act harms another. Injured party usually sues for monetary compensation: crimes are social wrongs that affect society as a whole, some crimes are also torts, a tort is an inherently wrongful act that causes injury to another.
