“Legal observers are saying the door has been shut across Canada on a residential homeowner’s common law liability for snow and ice removal on a municipal sidewalk after the BC’s highest court ruled two property owners did not owe a duty of care to a man who slipped and fell outside their home. The case in Der v Zhao 2021 BCCA 82 concerns Kwok Der, who was seriously injured when he slipped and fell on black ice in a sidewalk adjacent to a property owned by Ang Zhao and Qianqiu Huang. He argued before the Court of Appeal there was a common law duty of a homeowner to clear snow and ice from the sidewalk …” (more)
[Ian Burns, The Lawyer’s Daily, 8 March]
First posted 2021-03-08 15:13:00
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