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Record 1 2015-03-18

English

Subject field(s)
  • Tort Law (common law)
CONT

Chief Justice Culliton, after observing rather enigmatically that "nervous shock... is a substantive tort", concluded that the plaintiff did "not prove that the shock which she experienced... was one which the defendant...ought, as a reasonable person, to have foreseen as a result of her conduct".

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit des délits (common law)
CONT

Le juge en chef Culliton, après avoir assez énigmatiquement affirmé que «le fait d'infliger un choc nerveux...constitue un délit positif», en arriva à la conclusion que la demanderesse n'avait pas «apporté la preuve que le choc qu'elle avait subi...aurait dû raisonnablement être prévu par la partie défenderesse».

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