Canadian Tort Law, 12th Edition

The late Honourable Allen M. Linden, O.C., Q.C., B.A., LL.B., LL.M., J.S.D., was a Judge of the Federal Court of Appeal from 1990 to 2009. Previously, he was a Professor of tort law at Osgoode Hall Law School of York University in Toronto from 1961 to 1978, and acted as Founding Executive Director of the Canadian Institute on the Administration of Justice from 1974 to 1978. He was appointed as a Trial Judge on the Superior Court of Ontario from 1978 to 1990, and served as President of the Law Reform Commission of Canada from 1983 to 1990. Mr. Linden was a member of the American Law Institute. He taught law in the United States, Australia and the United Kingdom, and taught part-time at the University of Ottawa and at Pepperdine University, School of Law in California. In 1965, he authored a statistical study on Compensation for Auto Accidents, which led the Province of Ontario to adopt a no-fault auto insurance plan in 1969, which influenced other provinces to follow. He has written several books and many articles about torts, which led to the award of the Professor John G. Fleming Award for Outstanding Scholarship in Tort Law. In 2011, he received the David Walter Mundell Medal for his distinguished contribution to law and letters. On July 1, 2015, Justice Linden was inducted to membership in the Order of Canada by Governor General David Johnston. He is co-author, with Bruce Feldthusen, of the Torts and Negligence volumes of Halsbury's Laws of Canada and of Canadian Tort Law, 11th Edition and Canadian Tort Law, 11th Edition - Student Edition. He is also co-author, with Stephen E. Firestone, of Butterworths Ontario Motor Vehicle Insurance Practice Manual. Mr. Linden passed away after completion of Canadian Tort Law - Cases, Notes & Materials, 15th Edition but before publication.

Bruce Feldthusen, B.A., LL.B., LL.M., S.J.D., is currently a professor of law at the University of Ottawa. He has been teaching and writing about tort law for over forty years, primarily in Canada, but also in the United States and Australia. He was a professor of law at the University of Western Ontario from 1977 to 1999 and served as Dean of the Common Law Section of the University of Ottawa from 2000 to 2013. He is co-author of Canadian Tort Law, 11th Edition, with the late Hon. Allen M. Linden, Margaret Hall, Erik Knutsen and Hilary Young, as well as Canadian Tort Law, Cases Notes & Materials, 15th Edition, with Allen Linden and Lewis Klar. He is also known for his book, Economic Negligence, now in its sixth edition. Feldthusen’s analysis of pure economic loss has been adopted by the Supreme Court of Canada and now provides the organizing framework for all negligence actions in that field. He was one of the first legal academics to study civil remedies for victims of sexual assault. Feldthusen was the research director for the Ontario Law Reform Commission’s 1989 study on Exemplary Damages, which has been cited with approval and adopted in many common law jurisdictions in Canada and abroad. He has also practised law, and works frequently as a litigation consultant on issues in tort law.

Margaret Isabel Hall, B.A. (Hons), LL.B., LL.M.,Ph.D., is a Professor in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Department of Criminology, at Simon Fraser University, where she is the Society of Notaries Public of B.C. Chair in Applied Legal Studies and Director of the MA in Applied Legal Studies Program. Prior to joining Simon Fraser University in 2019, Prof. Hall was an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Law at Thompson Rivers University (of which she was a founding faculty member) where her courses taught included Torts and Advanced Torts. Prof. Hall has also taught torts at the University of British Columbia Faculty of Law (now the Peter A. Allard School of Law) and the University of Ottawa Faculty of Law (Common Law).

Prof. Hall is a co-author of the Law of Nuisance in Canada, published by LexisNexis in 2010 (first edition) and 2015 (second edition), and in 2018 a volume edited by Prof. Hall titled The Canadian Law of Obligations: Private Law for the 21st Century was published by LexisNexis and as a special volume of the Supreme Court Law Reports. Prof. Hall has published extensively in the area of tort law, including systemic and institutional theories of liability, and was a co-author of the 12th edition of Canadian Tort Law. In addition to tort law, Prof. Hall has also published extensively on issues relating to mental capacity in the law, and her current work in this area includes a focus on theories on vulnerability and autonomy in private law.

Prof. Hall is an Adjunct Professor at the Australian Centre for Health Law Research at the Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane, Australia, and in 2020-2021 Prof. Hall was a Liberty Fellow at the Leeds University School of Law. Prof. Hall’s work has been cited by Canadian appellate and trial courts and in law reform reports in Canada and Australia, and received funding from granting agencies including the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada and the Canadian Institutes of Health Research.

Erik S. Knutsen, B.A. (Hons), J.D., LL.M. is a Professor at the Faculty of Law, Queen’s University. He has also taught in the Queen’s School of Medicine and as a core faculty member in Queens’ interdisciplinary Masters of Science in Healthcare Quality program. Professor Knutsen’s areas of academic interest include tort, insurance, and the civil litigation system. He is a co-author of Stempel & Knutsen on Insurance Coverage, an American insurance law treatise. He is also co-author of a casebook on Canadian civil litigation and one on American insurance law. His work has been cited by Canadian, American and European appellate and trial courts. Professor Knutsen earned his Masters of Law (LL.M.) from Harvard Law School, his Juris Doctor (J.D.) from Osgoode Hall Law School, and his Honours Bachelor of Arts (B.A.(Hons.)) from Lakehead University. Professor Knutsen is a recipient of the Queen’s University-wide Chancellor A. Charles Baillie Teaching Award and has three times earned the faculty teaching award at Queen’s Faculty of Law. He was previously a Visiting Assistant Professor at Florida State University College of Law, where he also earned a teaching award. He has practiced tort and insurance litigation in Thunder Bay at Carrel + Partners LLP, in Toronto at Fasken Martineau LLP, and in New York at Paul, Weiss LLP where he assisted with 9/11 World Trade Center cases. Professor Knutsen regularly consults with lawyers on cases heading to trial or appeal.

Hilary A. N. Young, B.A., M.A., Ph.D., LL.B., LL.M., is a Professor in the University of New Brunswick's Faculty of Law. She obtained her Ph.D. in linguistics from Rice University, an LL.B. from the University of Ottawa Faculty of Common Law and an LL.M. from Harvard Law School. She clerked for Justice Louis LeBel at the Supreme Court of Canada and practiced civil litigation at Cox & Palmer in Halifax before beginning her academic career. Dr. Young’s research and teaching interests include defamation, privacy, tort and health law. She is one of Canada's leading defamation scholars: She has conducted a major empirical study of Canadian defamation law and has published on anti-SLAPP laws, defamatory meaning, corporate and government defamation actions, internet intermediary liability (with Emily Laidlaw) and the responsible communication defence. She was a member of the Advisory Group for the Law Commission of Ontario's Defamation Law in the Internet Age project. She was also an expert advisor on the Uniform Law Conference of Canada's project on torts for the unauthorized distribution of intimate images. Dr. Young also researches and teaches health law, with an emphasis on informed consent and end of life legal issues. Her work has been cited by courts, including the Supreme Court of Canada, and has been funded by granting agencies including the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.