Publications
Corporate Directors’ Liability, Research Paper 17
This paper addresses the question of the standard of care required from the directors of corporations. At the time of publication, there were different commonlaw rules about Corporate Directors’ Liability in different jurisdictions: that in Alberta being that “a director is not expected to exhibit ‘a greater degree of skill than may [reasonably] be expected from a person of his [sic] knowledge and experience’”; that in Delaware being much higher, that in Indiana being lower; […]
| AREA OF LAW | Corporate and Commercial |
| TAGS | business judgement, breach, corporation, director, duty of care, fiduciary, liability |
| FORMAT | Publications |
| FILE | RPNo.17.pdf |
February 3, 1989
Occupiers’ Liability, Final Report 3
This paper considers the desirability and design of provincial legislation that pursues the regulation of business names and business name disclosure. Business name regulation is for the purpose of limiting the scope for confusion caused by the use of similar names, and business name disclosure requires that firms that use a business name disclose certain information about themselves to the public. This paper discusses the two objectives of business names legislation and then describes the […]
| AREA OF LAW | Property |
| TAGS | duty of care, injury, invitee, Land, liability, licensee, occupier, trespasser |
| FORMAT | Publications |
| FILE | fr003.pdf |
| ENACTMENT |
Occupiers’ Liability Act, SA 1973, c 79 (now RSA 2000, c O-4). |
December 1, 1969