BU231 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: False Imprisonment, Debt Management Plan, Alteratie
Document Summary
Involve specific types of conduct which courts identify is wrong. Tort laws create liability for intentional behaviour that causes harm: torts involving trespass to the person, protect people from interfering with one another. Policy rationale is to protect and prevent people from blatantly interfering with one another. Primary goal of a tort remedy is to compensate victim for personal loss caused by the defendant usually through a monetary judgement: settlement. Assault: threat of violence to a person. Battery: unlawful and non-consensual physical contact with a person. False imprisonment: unlawfully restraining or confining another person. Defamation: making an untrue statement that causes injury to the reputation of another person (slander/spoken defamation; libel/written defamation) Businesses are exposed to wide variety of risks related to negligence. What happens if a business ignores a legal risk: exposes itself to legal liability that my trigger a law suit.
