The Resurfice Exception: Causation in Negligence Without Probability

Resurfice Corp. v. Hanke, [2007] 1 S.C.R. 333, 2007 SCC 7, creates a new causation doctrine in Canadian negligence law that is available to plaintiffs only in exceptional cases. Under this doctrine, negligence and the possibility of specific factual causation may be sufficient to satisfy the causati...

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Main Author: Cheifetz, David
Other Authors: Weinrib, Ernest
Language:en_ca
Published: 2012
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1807/33372