LAWS 2202 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Regulatory Agency, Mortgage Broker, Ginger Beer
19 Mar 2017
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Donoghue v stevenson 1932 p. 23: facts, pl consumes a ginger beer in an opaque bottle containing a decomposing snail, bought by a friend at a railway caf , sues manufacturer for damages. Kamloops v. nielson 1884 scc p27: facts, kamloops building inspector and kamloops city council fail to stop illegal construction, mr hughes, who was a councillor of the city, built the house against building standards. Building inspectors would stop order construction due to the improper approach. Eventually the city allowed hughes to inish the building. 4 years later, hughes sold the house to neilson, who was not informed of the history of the construction, but eventually found out after having issues with the house. Issue: question whether kamloops breached its duty of care to nielson, who purchased unsafe home from builder, ratio, policy defence usually available to protect statutory bodies (city) against negligence claims, but . Policy is that they can only aford so many injunctions and building demolitions.
