Parsley,
I was just reading an article about a snail!
A quote:
"Almost every Canadian law student knows the case by name: Donaghue v. Stevenson, because it's one of the first cases taught in Tort Law 101. The case involved a Ms. Donaghue who went to a soda shop and drank a bottle of ginger beer before noticing the remains of a dead snail at the bottom.
When Donaghue tried to sue, she found that she could only take a manufacturer to court if she had a contractual relationship with them, or if she could allege that the drink maker had misrepresented the product. Neither applied in her case.
"So the question the court had to answer was: did the manufacturer owe a duty to people who use the product even though there was no explicit contract? " Hutchinson explains.
The court decided that yes, indeed a manufacturer needs to take care with the products it sells to all its consumers."
Question:
When the CWB represents its services as 'maximising' grower prices paid to grain growers... and there is a 'snail in the bottom of the ginger beer' each time we buy their product... why can't we take action against the CWB???
Why have I never heard of this most simple elementary defense used to protect our common law right to the CWB providing 'duty of care' when providing us services?
I was just reading an article about a snail!
A quote:
"Almost every Canadian law student knows the case by name: Donaghue v. Stevenson, because it's one of the first cases taught in Tort Law 101. The case involved a Ms. Donaghue who went to a soda shop and drank a bottle of ginger beer before noticing the remains of a dead snail at the bottom.
When Donaghue tried to sue, she found that she could only take a manufacturer to court if she had a contractual relationship with them, or if she could allege that the drink maker had misrepresented the product. Neither applied in her case.
"So the question the court had to answer was: did the manufacturer owe a duty to people who use the product even though there was no explicit contract? " Hutchinson explains.
The court decided that yes, indeed a manufacturer needs to take care with the products it sells to all its consumers."
Question:
When the CWB represents its services as 'maximising' grower prices paid to grain growers... and there is a 'snail in the bottom of the ginger beer' each time we buy their product... why can't we take action against the CWB???
Why have I never heard of this most simple elementary defense used to protect our common law right to the CWB providing 'duty of care' when providing us services?
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