ADMN 3250H Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Unfair Business Practices, Tortious Interference, Vicarious Liability
30 Mar 2020
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Dispute: lawyer advice, demand letter response, statement of claim statement of defence, replies, declaration/affidavit of documents both, discoveries. These are procedures steps in the proceedings each having their own rules to control their format, content and timeliness. Each step and each type of proceeding has specific rules. Tort law: definition, development of tort law. Intentional interference with person: assault and battery, vicarious liability, false imprisonment. International interference with reputation of person: defamation. Intentional interference with land and chattels: trespass to land, conversion. Business related torts and crimes: slander of goods, breach of confidence, unfair business practices. Most torts come from common law: historical case low imported from old england. There is a negligence act and a statute of frauds and other legislation that impacts the process and substance of the tort. Most tort law is very old in its origins.
