MCS 3040 Chapter 22: Law Chapter 22

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Marketing and Consumer Studies
• Course: MCS 3040
• Professor: Joseph Radocchia

Document Summary

Relationship and legal obligations: businesses depend on professional services. Responsibilities of professionals to clients and others who rely on their work. Three categories of professional responsibilities: contractural duties. Responsibilities in tort: duties to torts similar to service providers, negligence is most common, careless or negligent advice most common. Claimant must establish basic elements of negligence action: professional owes claimant a duty of care. 2: professional"s conduct caused claimant"s loss, claimant"s loss is not too remote from the professional"s actions that duty of care was breached representation made by professional was untrue, inaccurate or misleading. Negligent misrepresentation elements of proof: duty of care based on special relationship between professional and recipient of advice. 2: professional must have been negligent in making the representation. 5. the recipient must have reasonably relied on the misrepresentation the reliance of recipient on representation must have resulted in damages to the recipient.