Law 3101A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Health Professional, Machismo, Antipsychotic

• School: Western University
• Department: Law
• Course: Law 3101A/B
• Professor: Robert Solomon

Document Summary

There is no general duty of care in negligence to take positive action to benefit. Positive acts versus failures to act another the law simply requires individuals to refrain from wrongful positive acts special relationship or the defendant had a statutory or contractual duty to intervene. Some limited duties of affirmative action were recognized if the parties were in a: parent/child, teacher/student, employer/employee, healthcare professional/patient. The good samaritan act 2001 further protects practitioners unless they are. The courts have greatly expanded the number and kinds of situations in which. Practitioners have no general duty of care in negligence to assist at the scene of. Practitioners have a duty to render aid if an emergency arises in the course of an. Little reason to fear liability in intervening in an emergency as only one reported they will recognize a special relationship. Part 1: duties to rescue and render aid, treat and refer.