Index

AuthorJamie Cassels - Craig Jones
Pages501-510
Affirmative defences, 107–13
contributory negligence, 108,
109–10, 111
intervening act of another, 107–9
voluntary assumption of risk and
waiver of liability, 110–13
Aggregate assessment of damages, 348
Aggregate claims
law of, 307–94
Aggregative proceedings
origins of, 318–31
Alternate liability theory, 215–18
Anns test, 16n, 128
Asset purchase liability bar, 288
Beals v. Saldanha, 410–13, 430
Bill of Peace, 318, 319, 320, 321, 322
Blackmail settlements, 384–89, 391,
430
Blocking provisions, 423–26, 432
Breach of a special duty, 146–50
Breach of standards, see Negligence in
mass tort
Burden shifting, see Indeterminate cau-
sation problems
“But for test”, 205–10
Canadian class action policy
foundations of, 318–37
Canadian class actions
features of, 338–50
Care
large-scale duties of, 16–20
standard of, 20–25, 27, 37, 41, 75,
77, 256
Carriage motions, 374–379
Causation
in duty-to-warn cases, 60–63
factual, 26
legal, 26
problems in large-scale wrongs,
203–5
in product liability, 26–28
Certifying the class, 338–42, 389n,
390, 433
Charter of Rights, 161–66
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