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A Corrective Justice Account Of Building Authority Liability In Canadian Negligence Law, Jonathan De Vries
A Corrective Justice Account Of Building Authority Liability In Canadian Negligence Law, Jonathan De Vries
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In its decisions in Kamloops v Neilsen and Rothfield v Manolakos, the Supreme Court of Canada adopted a policy-driven justification for imposing liability on building authorities whenever the negligent exercise of their building regulation mandate led to any member of the public suffering any form of foreseeable loss. From its beginnings, this legal doctrine was incoherent and unjustified. It has also become an aberration within Canadian law as, beginning with the decision in Cooper v Hobart, the Supreme Court of Canada resiled from its earlier policy-based approach to imposing liability. What is required is a repudiation of the …