Tort law is the law of wrongs that are someone’s fault. It is private law, which means it concerns relationships between people wherein harms to the person, property, dignity or wealth occur. Tort law consists of a collection of various private law actions and is most often divided between conduct that is intentional and conduct that is negligent. The reality of modern day civil litigation is that the overwhelming majority of tort law suits focus on negligence. As such, the entire first term will be spent on the tort of negligence. In the second term, we will examine the intentional torts (e.g., battery) and other torts such as defamation. Additionally, we will consider the historical and current impact of racism and sexism on tort law and civil litigation, for e.g., in the quantification of damages for Indigenous plaintiffs, etc. We will study legal responses to Residential Schools and cavass areas where Tort law needs to improve [5 credits]
Tort law is the law of wrongs that are someone’s fault. It is private law, which means it concerns relationships between people wherein harms to the person, property, dignity or wealth occur. Tort law consists of a collection of various private law actions and is most often divided between conduct that is intentional and conduct that is negligent. The reality of modern day civil litigation is that the overwhelming majority of tort law suits focus on negligence. As such, the entire first term will be spent on the tort of negligence. In the second term, we will examine the intentional torts (e.g., battery) and other torts such as defamation. Additionally, we will consider the historical and current impact of racism and sexism on tort law and civil litigation, for e.g., in the quantification of damages for Indigenous plaintiffs, etc. We will study legal responses to Residential Schools and cavass areas where Tort law needs to improve [5 credits]
