GMGT 3300 Chapter Notes - Chapter 12: Contributory Negligence

• School: University of Manitoba
• Department: General Management
• Course: GMGT 3300
• Professor: Ian A.Restall

Document Summary

People from the profession to come to the court and inform the court of the reasonable care or standard care needed to perform the operation. On simple stuff you would not need to call on witnesses. E. g. there is an ice storm that leaves your steps icy. But, reasonable homeowners do not expect to have the stairs cleared while the storm is still going on, therefore any injuries during that time they would not be held liable for. However, if it is 3 days after the storm, they may be held liable if someone slips and injures him or herself. The standard of care depends entirely on the facts 3. The damage/injury resulted from (was caused by) the breach. Legal causation vs. causation in fact must consider intervening factors. There may be causation but if there are too many intervening factors there is no basis of legal causation it is only causation in fact.