BUSA 364 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Law Society, Small Claims Court, Legal Personality
4 Mar 2013
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The front window of polly"s flower shop was recently broken when someone threw a rock through it. Which of the following statements is true: trade unions sometimes can sue or be sued even though they are unincorporated associations. A law suit may be brought against human beings, corporations, and unincorporated associations. Geetha has been diagnosed with skin cancer. Based on her physician"s diagnosis, she believes that her condition was caused by sofskin, a lotion that she used for many years. She wants to sue the manufacturer of sofskin, but she realizes that a law suit would require a great deal of complicated evidence, and therefore would likely be long and expensive. Class actions have become more common in canada in recent years. That increase in popularity can be explained, at least in part, by the fact that they save society money by eliminating the need for similar actions to be brought to court separately.
