Civil Responsibility

General rules, acquisitive prescription, and extinctive prescription under the Civil Code of Quebec: limitation periods, interruption, suspension, and renunciation.

How Quebec civil law governs the liability of physicians and hospitals, including the nature of the medical obligation, informed consent, professional duties, and the allocation of responsibility for the acts of others...

How Quebec civil law governs the professional liability of notaries, covering the nature of the notary-client relationship, the standard of care, principal duties, the subsidiarity question, and liability toward third...

How Quebec civil law governs the professional liability of lawyers toward their clients and third parties, covering duties of competence, advice, loyalty, professional secrecy, causation through loss of chance, and...

This chapter traces the evolution of civil liability for professionals in Quebec, from historical quasi-immunity to the modern obligation of means, the role of codes of ethics, and the influence of Roberge c. Bolduc on...

The directness and certainty requirements for compensable damage in Quebec civil law: indirect victims, loss of chance, third-party benefits, and post-incident releases.

Quebec's state compensation schemes cover workplace accidents, automobile accidents, criminal offences, and other situations. This lesson examines their interaction with the general civil liability regime under the...

An overview of the tripartite classification of damage (bodily, moral, and material injury) adopted by the Civil Code of Quebec and the Supreme Court's criterion of the nature of the initial violation for qualifying the...

Analysis of moratory damages under Quebec civil law: the 5% legal rate of interest (art. 1618 CCQ), the discretionary additional indemnity (art. 1619 CCQ), the starting point tied to default, and special cases.

The rules governing compensation of pecuniary and non-pecuniary losses when property is destroyed or damaged under Quebec civil law.

How Quebec civil law compensates for death: claims by heirs, recourses of indirect victims, loss of material support, funeral expenses, solatium doloris, and the shortening of life.

Rules governing the assessment and compensation of bodily injury in Quebec civil law: cost of care, loss of income, non-pecuniary losses, discounting, and tax implications.

An overview of professional liability in Quebec civil law: the standard of care, obligations of means and result, professional duties, and the role of codes of ethics across lawyers, notaries, and physicians.

How Quebec civil law compensates moral harm arising from injury to reputation, including the assessment of pecuniary and non-pecuniary losses, the absence of a damages cap, the factors modulating quantum, and the...

Defences, exemptions, and apportionment rules in Quebec extra-contractual civil liability: superior force, contributory fault of the victim, assumption of risk, self-defence, novus actus interveniens, and exclusion...

How Quebec civil law allocates responsibility when harm is caused by minors, employees, things, animals, and defective products under the Civil Code of Quebec.

An analysis of the fundamental conditions of extra-contractual civil liability for personal acts in Quebec law: fault, damage, and causation under the Civil Code of Quebec.