In what circumstances will the courts rely on Zavaglia for determining whether a landlord has a higher duty of care than a landlord under the law of negligence?
British Columbia, Canada
The following excerpt is from Boyes v. Wong, 2016 BCSC 1085 (CanLII):
In O’Leary v. Rupert, 2010 BCSC 240 at para. 31 and 33, the court relied on Zavaglia and added the neither the RTA nor the OLA impose a higher duty of care of the landlord than imposed by the law of negligence.
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