Courses
Negligence: The Four Elements Every Business Should Know
How negligence works in Canadian tort law — duty of care, breach, causation, and damages — and what businesses need to understand about their potential liability to customers, visitors, and third parties.
Occupiers Liability: Your Obligations as a Property Owner or Tenant
How occupiers liability law works across Canada — the duty owed to visitors, trespassers, and others who enter property, and what businesses must do to manage their exposure.
Vicarious Liability: When You Are Responsible for Someone Else
How vicarious liability works in Canadian tort law — when employers are liable for employee conduct, the course of employment test, and how businesses manage exposure for actions they did not personally take.
Damages in Tort: How Courts Measure and Award Compensation
How damages are assessed in Canadian tort cases — compensatory and non-compensatory damages, the heads of damage, how courts calculate awards, and the principles that govern what a plaintiff can recover.
Product Liability: When Your Product Causes Harm
How product liability works in Canadian tort law — the manufacturer's and retailer's duty of care, design defects, manufacturing defects, warning failures, and the practical obligations of businesses in the supply chain.
Defamation, Privacy, and Economic Torts
The torts that most commonly affect Canadian businesses beyond negligence — defamation, invasion of privacy, inducing breach of contract, and unlawful interference with economic relations.
Guardian Liability for Acts of Dependent Adults
Examines guardian liability when a dependent adult causes property damage at a volunteer site, addressing Alberta guardianship duties, vicarious liability principles, and potential defences.
Product Liability: When Your Product Causes Harm (BC)
How product liability works in Canadian tort law — the manufacturer's and retailer's duty of care, design defects, manufacturing defects, warning failures, and the practical obligations of businesses in the supply chain.
Proving Negligence Without Physical Evidence
Neighbouring property owners in Clearwater Crossing, Alberta pursue a negligence claim against a residential owner for fire spread despite total destruction of physical evidence eliminating direct proof of causation.
Negligence in Domestic Well Drilling: Foreseeability and Standard of Care
Negligence principles applied to a 2021 Clearwater well drilling incident where subsurface gas hazards raised competing foreseeability arguments between rural property owners and contractors.