Management and Organizational Studies 2275A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Objective Test, Contributory Negligence, Tortious Interference

• School: Western University
• Department: Management and Organizational Studies
• Course: Management and Organizational Studies 2275A/B
• Professor: Philip King

Document Summary

Tort law is comprised of: intentional tort, negligence. The purposes of tort law are: compensation. You did something wrong (committed a tort) against a person and there was harm suffered. Secondary person: distributive justice: distributing wealth, take money from people who do bad things and give it to the people who suffer, case law: balance of probabilities, criminal law: beyond a reasonable doubt. To(cid:396)t la(cid:449) is (cid:374)ot (cid:272)(cid:396)i(cid:373)i(cid:374)al la(cid:449) although they a(cid:396)e ofte(cid:374) (cid:272)o(cid:374)fused: think about someone punching someone. The punch is a criminal offence but the damages caused from the punch (dental damages/ time off work) is then tort law. Tort law comes from cases: almost all precedents. Therefore, it changes over time: originally, two torts: trespassing to person (assault or battery), trespass to property. Started from the rich (aristocrats: additional tort: defamation- (cid:396)ui(cid:374)i(cid:374)g so(cid:373)eo(cid:374)e"s (cid:396)eputatio(cid:374) is like t(cid:396)espassi(cid:374)g to the person, plaintiffs had to prove intention in order to win.