How equity will be used to determine the liability of a physician?
Ontario, Canada
The following excerpt is from Barker v Barker, 2017 ONSC 3397 (CanLII):
How equity may have a role to play in determining the civil responsibilities and liabilities of a physician that are independent from the duties provided by statute and the common law is demonstrated by McInerney v. MacDonald, 1992 CanLII 57 (SCC), [1992] 2 S.C.R. 138. This case has several important lessons for the case at bar.
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