LAW 122 Lecture Notes - Contributory Negligence, Professional Negligence In English Law, Breach (Security Exploit)

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Law and Business
• Course: LAW 122
• Professor: Nick Iannazzo

Document Summary

Tort of negligence: determines whether the defendant can be held liable for carelessly causing injury to the plaintiff. A manufacture may produce a beverage that makes a consume sick. Tort of negligence requires the plaintiff to prove that the defendant: owed a duty of care, in that it was required to act carefully toward the plaintiff. Breached the standard of care by acting carelessly. Defendant can show at least one of the three possibilities: Plaintiffs harm caused by its own contributory negligence. The plaintiff voluntarily assumed the risk of being injured by the defendant. The plaintiff was injured while engaged in some form of illegal behaviour. Professional negligence: refers to negligence that is committed by a professional person such as a banker or lawyer, or an accountant. Have to act as a reasonable person: law of negligence contains a tension between two important values.