Preliminary Program
Emerging Issues in Tort Law: A Conference
The University of Western Ontario
Thursday, June 8th
8:00 p.m. Wine and Cheese Reception · Station Park Hotel
Friday, June 9th
8:15 a.m. Continental Breakfast · Closed Student Lounge
8:45 a.m. Welcome Address · Room 36
Dean Ian Holloway · University of Western Ontario
9:00 a.m. Structural Issues in Tort Law · Room 36
Chair: The Honourable Justice Robert Sharpe ·
Court of Appeal for Ontario
Presentations: Peter Cane · Australian National University
Tort Law: The General and the Special Parts
Mayo Moran · University of Toronto
The Influence of Constitutional Values on the Law of Torts
Richard Lewis · Cardiff Law School
The Influence of Insurers upon the System of Compensation
for Personal Injury
Commentator: Allan Beever · University of Auckland
10:30 a.m. Health Break · Closed Student Lounge
10:45 a.m. Tort Law and the State · Room 36
Chair: The Honourable Chief Justice Michael MacDonald ·
Nova Scotia Court of Appeal
Presentations: Lewis Klar · University of Alberta
Breach of Statutory Duty: Negligence, Misfeasance In Public Office, and the Economic Torts
Erika Chamberlain · University of Western Ontario
Misfeasance in a Public Office: In Defence of the Power/Duty Distinction
Geneviève Saumier · McGill University
Failure to Regulate and Products Liability
Commentators: Neil Foster · University of Newcastle (Australia).
Geoff McLay · University of Victoria (New Zealand)
12:15 p.m. Buffet Luncheon · The John and Dotsa Bitove Family Law Library
Friday Afternoon, June 9th
1:15 p.m. Tort Law and the Family · Room 36
Chair: The Honourable Justice Kathryn Feldman ·
Court of Appeal for Ontario
Presentations: Shauna Van Praagh · McGill University
«Sois Sage» - Responsibility for Childishness in the Law of Civil Wrongs
Elizabeth Adjin-Tettey · University of Victoria
Claims of Involuntary Parenthood: Why the Resistance?
Commentator: Moin Yahya · University of Alberta
2:15 p.m. Health Break · Closed Student Lounge
2:30 p.m. Advanced Issues in Duty and Remoteness · Room 36
Chair: The Honourable Chief Justice Clyde K. Wells ·
Supreme Court of Newfoundland and Labrador
(Court of Appeal)
Presentations: Michael Jones · University of Liverpool
Liability for Psychiatric Damage: Walking a Path Between Pragmatism and Principle
Peter Benson · University of Toronto
Does White v. Jones Represent Canadian Law?
Israel Gilead · Hebrew University
Harm Screening in the Common Law and Civil Law Tradition
Commentator: The Honourable Justice Allen Linden ·
Federal Court of Appeal
4:00 p.m. Health Break · Closed Student Lounge
4:15 p.m. Economic Loss · Room 36
Chair: The Honourable Justice W. Ian C. Binnie ·
Supreme Court of Canada
Presentations: Stephen Todd · University of Canterbury
Tort, Contract and Defective Property
John Swan · Aird & Berlis LLP
Officers, Employees, Servant’s Torts and the
Modern Corporation
Commentator: Dean David F. Partlett · Washington and Lee University
5:15 p.m. End of Sessions
6:30 p.m. Cocktails · Oscar Taylor’s Restaurant
7:00 p.m. Dinner · Oscar Taylor’s Restaurant
Saturday, June 10th
8:15 a.m. Continental Breakfast · Closed Student Lounge
9:00 a.m. Causation · Room 36
Chair: The Honourable Chief Justice Richard J. Scott ·
Manitoba Court of Appeal
Presentations: Richard Wright · Chicago-Kent College of Law
NESS and Omissions
Vaughan Black · Dalhousie University
Decision Causation
Lara Khoury · McGill University
Comparative Perspectives on Uncertain Causation
Commentators: Ken Cooper-Stephenson · University of Saskatchewan
David Cheifetz · Bennett Best Burn LLP
10:30 a.m. Health Break · Closed Student Lounge
10:45 a.m. Strict and Vicarious Liability · Room 36
Chair: The Honourable Justice Stephen Goudge ·
Court of Appeal for Ontario
Presentations: Robert Stevens · University of Oxford
A Theory of Non-delegable Duty
David Wingfield · WeirFoulds LLP
Perish Vicarious Liability?
Paula Giliker · University of Oxford
Comparative Perspectives on Vicarious Liability
Commentators: John Murphy · University of Manchester
Russell Brown · University of Alberta
12:15 p.m. Buffet Luncheon · The John and Dotsa Bitove Family Law Library
1:30 p.m. The Nature of Damage · Room 36
Chair: The Honourable Justice Eleanore A. Cronk ·
Court of Appeal for Ontario
Presentations: Andrew Tettenborn · University of Exeter
What is a Loss?
Kumar Amirthalingam · National University of Singapore
The Changing Face Of The Gist Of Negligence
Commentator: Stephen Perry · New York University
2:30 p.m. Health Break · Closed Student Lounge
2:45 p.m. Intentional Torts · Room 36
Chair: The Honourable Justice Susan Lang ·
Court of Appeal for Ontario
Presentations: Ken Oliphant · Cardiff Law School
The Structure of the Intentional Torts
Denise Réaume · University of Toronto
The Cause of Action in Wilkinson v. Downton:
A Tort Whose Time Has Come
Commentator: Robert Solomon · University of Western Ontario
3:45 p.m. Health Break · Closed Student Lounge
4:00 p.m. Tort Law and Other Obligations · Room 36
Chair: The Honourable Chief Justice Lance Finch ·
British Columbia Court of Appeal
Presentations: Lionel Smith · McGill University
Is Breach of Fiduciary Duty a Tort?
Dennis Klimchuk · University of Western Ontario
The Boundary Between Conversion And Unjust Enrichment
Commentator: Stephen Smith · McGill University
5:00 p.m. End of Sessions
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