What is the standard of care required by the courts to ensure that the chairs used by the patrons were reasonably safe?
British Columbia, Canada
The following excerpt is from Visser v. Loblaws Inc. et al, 2001 BCSC 1781 (CanLII):
It is not the law that steps must be taken to avoid all accidents. The standard imposed is of reasonable conduct. No one is bound to act so to rule out any possibility of accident (Swift v. MacDougall, 1974 CanLII 211 (SCC), [1976] 1 S.C.R. 240). The question is whether the defendant took reasonable care to ensure that the chairs used by its patrons were reasonably safe in the circumstances.
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