What categories of sufficiently proximate relationships have been established by the jurisprudence in the context of the law of negligence?
Ontario, Canada
The following excerpt is from Hurst v. Armstrong & Quaile Associates Inc., 2007 CanLII 21602 (ON SC):
At para. 31, Cooper v. Hobart explains that categories of sufficiently proximate relationships have been established by the jurisprudence, although new categories may be recognized, and that generally proximity should be established by the reference to these categories to provide certainty to the law of negligence.
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