This highly regarded casebook provides a detailed examination of every major area of Canadian tort law, drawing on case law from every province. It features helpful explanatory introductions, concise extracts of key decisions, editorial passages, detailed notes and questions, and review problems.
The eighth edition of
Cases and Materials on the Law of Torts retains many features of the previous edition and contains:
- A new section on the defamation defence of responsible communication on matters of public interest.
- Additional analysis of the material contribution approach to causation.
- Revised material on the tort of misfeasance in a public office.
- An expanded discussion of arrest powers and investigative detention in the context of the defence of lawful authority.
- A more detailed review of damages under s. 24 of the Charter.
- New notes examining the ongoing development of the economic torts.
- Updated notes that include many recent cases and articles
Robert Solomon obtained an LL.B. from Osgoode Hall Law School and an LL.M. from Yale before joining the University of Western Ontario in 1972. He has been engaged in research and teaching in tort law, alcohol and drug policy, and healthcare law for almost 40 years. He has authored or co-authored approximately 80 journal articles and book chapters, and more than 150 government and other reports.
He was a member of the Board of Directors of the Ontario Addiction Research Foundation and has served as a consultant to government agencies and research organizations throughout Canada and abroad. He is currently the National Director of Legal Policy for Mothers Against Drunk Driving Canada and a member of national and international traffic safety organizations. He has won University and provincial teaching awards, and his research has been recognized by the International Council on Alcohol, Drugs and Traffic Safety and the Kaiser Foundation.
Mitchell McInnes currently is a Professor of Law at the University of Alberta. He previously taught at the University of Western Ontario, the University of Melbourne and Deakin University, clerked with Justice Major at the Supreme Court of Canada and served as a Legal Research Officer with the Alberta Court of Appeal. Professor McInnes' research focuses on tort, restitution, remedies and unjust enrichment. He is the author of Restitution: Developments in Unjust Enrichment and co-author of Managing the Law: The Legal Aspects of Doing Business (2nd ed.), Understanding Unjust Enrichment; Cases and Materials on the Law of Restitution, and Text , Commentary and Cases on Trusts (6th ed.). He has published over one hundred papers in leading journals and his work has been relied upon by all level of courts, including the Supreme Court of Canada and the High Court of Australia. He has received numerous teaching awards and he has been recognized by Macleans magazine as one of Canada's leading university teachers.
Erika Chamberlain (LL.B. (Dist.) Western 2001; Ph.D. Cambridge 2009) is an Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Law at the University of Western Ontario. Prior to her appointment, she served as clerk to Mr. Justice Major at the Supreme Court of Canada and was called to the Ontario Bar in 2002. Her teaching and research focus on tort law, equity, and impaired driving law, and she was awarded a Standard Research Grant from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council in 2009. She has published in leading legal and public health journals, was co-editor of Emerging Issues in Tort Law (2007) and co-author of Cases and Materials on the Law of Torts, 7th ed. (2007). Dr. Chamberlain was named Professor of the Year by Western Law's Student Legal Society in 2009-2010.
Stephen G.A. Pitel, (B.A., Carleton; LL.B., Dalhousie; LL.M., Ph.D., Cambridge), is an associate professor at the Faculty of Law at Western University. His teaching and research is focused on the conflict of laws, civil procedure, torts and legal ethics. He has co-authored, edited or co-edited eleven books since 2003 including Conflict of Laws (2010) and Private International Law in Common Law Canada: Cases, Text and Materials, 3rd Edition (2010). He has written over a dozen articles on private international law and won several teaching awards. He previously practiced commercial litigation in Toronto.