Concurrent Liability In Tort And Contract For Pre
The topic of this report is concurrent liability for pre-contractual misrepresentation produced among contracting parties. On the basis of that evidence, and in light of the absence in the trial judge’s causes of a clear conclusion as to what Checo would have performed had the misrepresentation not been produced, the Court of Appeal was in our view justified in creating its own finding that Checo would have entered the contract in any event, albeit at a greater bid.
X x x In other words, the specific factual matrix of a given case may possibly render it an exception” to the general class of circumstances in that although (as in most auditors’ liability instances) considerations of proximity under the very first branch of the Anns/Kamloops test may possibly militate in favour of obtaining that a duty of care inheres, the typical issues surrounding indeterminate liability do not arise.
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