What is the liability of an employee or director of a corporation for inducing or procuring a breach of contract?
Ontario, Canada
The following excerpt is from Colistro v. TBaytel, 2010 ONSC 2306 (CanLII):
The starting point in considering the issue of the liability of an employee or director of a corporation for inducing or procuring a breach of contract in an employment situation is the case of Said v. Butt (1920) 3 K.B. 497 at page 506: “...if a servant, acting bona fide within the scope of his authority, procures or causes the breach of a contract between his employer and a third party, he does not thereby become liable to an action in tort at the suit of the person whose contract has thereby been broken.”
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