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Article: Landmark cases in tort law.(Feature Report on Landmark Cases)(Cover story)
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- LawNow
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- November 1, 2006
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It has been said that hard cases make bad law. But the difficult cases are also most often the ones which result in restatements of basic legal principles, and expand the law into hitherto unconsidered factual situations. Contrary to making bad law, in Canada such cases occasionally reach the highest court in the land, the Supreme Court of Canada, where new meanings are gleaned from old legal concepts, and the law is made relevant for our times.
This article examines some landmark cases of the Supreme Court of Canada in recent years in the area of tort law, which have expanded the frontiers of legal meaning through the development of some of tort law's ...