PRV3 200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Beverley Mclachlin, Rupert Jackson, State Agency For National Security
22 Feb 2018
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With henderson and the other cases in unit 10, we see hb coming back. We see as not being a case primarily about negligent misrepresentations (actions or words), or about pel. But that assumption of responsibility may ground an action in tort similarly that it does in contract. 1. imagine that you are the group assistant for advanced common law obligations, leading a workshop focused on this unit. Your workshop begins with the identification of key preoccupations related to (cid:494)tort in a contractual matrix(cid:495) articulated by professor fleming and justice laforest (as described by chief justice mclachlin). To provoke further discussion, you ask what fleming and/or laforest might say about the recent english case, robinson v. jones and, in particular, the following excerpt: When one moves beyond the realm of professional retainers, it by no means follows that every contracting party assumes responsibilities (in the hedley byrne sense) to the other parties co-extensive with the contractual obligations.
