Tort Law
A civil wrong or injury
What is a tort?
Ex. Signing a waiver at a trampoline park
What is voluntary assumption of risk?
The plaintiff claims monetary damages against the defendant for aggravated assault.
What is Dunne v. Gauthier?
The legal union of individuals.
What is marriage?
It is beCAUSE Michael hates him.
What is (not) just cause?
Unlawful physical contact
What is battery?
Potentially permissible use of deadly force.
What is self-defence?
Found liable for not having reasonable cause to report to Child Protection Services, which damaged her reputation and career prospects.
Who is Wanda Young?
Someone who is at least 18 and mentally capable.
Who can legally make a will?
Information that must be given or made available to a particular person or the public within a legally mandated period of time.
What is due notice?
Acts that are not intended to injure but interfere with a person’s autonomy and their right to security and dignity
What are intentional torts?
A defence available to political commentators or journalists.
The attempt to measure the extent of harm suffered by the plaintiff due to the defendant's wrongful conduct.
What are damages?
A.K.A Parenting Plans
What are custody agreements?
A process of negotiation between employers and a group of employees aimed at regulatory agreements.
What is collective bargaining?
Provide damages to victims as compensation for their losses
What is the purpose of tort law?
Ex.) Jessica agrees to an operation for her five-year-old child against their consent.
What is legal authority?
The concept that grants a person or organization rights and responsibilities under the law.
What is legal personality?
Which parent will stay home with their children and/or how joint and personal banking accounts will be handled.
What are marital responsibilities?
What you are protected under if your employer files for bankruptcy.
What is the Wage Earner Protection Program Act?
Drivers can be held responsible if they do not ensure that the occupants of their cars are wearing seat belts; or if they allow incompetent persons to drive their cars.
What is contributory negligence?
The French term for an inevitable accident
Force majeur
If such a duty was affirmed to exist between a mother and her unborn child, the mother would find herself liable when performing any kind of action that could potentially harm the foetus.
What is prenatal negligence?
Court with sole jurisdiction in all cases involving divorce and the division of property.
What is the Superior Court of Justice?
Occurs when an employer unilaterally changes the terms of the employment contract so fundamentally that the employee quits their job.
What is constructive dismissal?