Management and Organizational Studies 2275A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Intentional Tort, Malicious Prosecution, False Imprisonment

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

Document Summary

Tort law is about compensation for wrongs that have done to someone. Tort law is comprised of: 1) intentional torts 2)negligence (cid:880). Tort of definition requires that the plaintiff need to prove that the defendant made the untrue statements about the plaintiff, which harm his reputation. First, you have to prove the statement is untrue, which is difficult. New york times says the woman came forward and reported the sexual assault. New york times didn"t say that he sexually assault the woman, the article says they reported that he did so. If donald trump sue the actual women, then he can say that i didn"t assault you, so your statements are false. New york times, so he has to prove that the women didn"t report to. New york times, which is very difficult for him to do that. It"s generally very difficult to prove sth. is false.