RSM225H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Contributory Negligence, Financial Statement, Implied Consent
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General negligence (pf must prove the above: duty of care: reasonably foreseeable victims. 4. standard of care: measurable causation foreseeable types of harm. Special categories of negligence: product liability: duty of care: automatically. Special categories of negligence: occupier"s liability: duty of care: automatically owe liability to everyone. Reasonable force to remove trespassers: difference between a rapist and a 3-year-old kid. If you"re a profession/expert of a specific field and give advices to your clients, but your advices are totally wrong, you commit negligent misrepresentation. If your lawyer loss the case, you can sue him for negligent if he really did a bad job. If a profession/expert gives you advice for free, if they are totally wrong advices, the profession/expert is liable although you didn"t give him money for the advices. If not a profession/expert, there can be a law suit even if he gives wrong advices. Solution: the firm don"t ask who (just for fun)
