Publication Language: English
Published: October 17, 2019
Publisher: LexisNexis Canada
The late Professor Gerald Fridman was one of Canada’s most respected and influential legal scholars, and a prolific author of more than a dozen legal texts and more than 100 articles, major papers, case notes, and book reviews. He was renowned in the fields of contracts, agency, torts, the sale of goods, and restitution, and his work has been cited in more than 50 decisions of the Supreme Court of Canada and in hundreds of lower-court decisions.
The 16 papers included in this collection were presented at a symposium hosted by Western Law in 2018. Marking the passing of Professor Gerald Fridman and celebrating his many contributions to the study of private law, the articles touch on virtually every aspect of Professor Fridman’s academic work.
The collection is divided into four parts:
Foreword – The Honourable Supreme Court of Canada Justice Brown Russell
Introduction – J.W. Neyers, Andrew Botterell, and Zoë Sinel
Part I: Contract
Controlling Contracts for Injustice and Unfairness – Stephen Waddams
Gerald Fridman: Making the Law of Contracts Work – Angela Swan
Disclaimers and Exclusion Clauses as Risk-Allocation Devices in Canadian Tort and Contract Law – Joost Blom
Part II: Torts
Gerald Fridman: A Classical Legal Scholar – Lewis Klar
At the Crossroads of Orthodoxy and Change: Fridman’s Contributions to an Emerging Canadian Scholarship of Torts, 1970-79 – Erika Chamberlain
Before Kamloops: The Canadian Law of Public Authority Liability That Might Have Been – Jonathan de Vries
Please Anns – No More Proximity Soup – Bruce Feldthusen
Perplexing Platforms for Tort – David Mangan
Waiting for Donoghue: Malice in the Law of Torts, Six Decades On – Greg Bowley
Consortium as a ‘Right’ in the Law of Torts – Zoë Sinel
Harm in the Private Law – Allan Beever
Part III: Unjust Enrichment, Restitution and Trusts
Restitution for Infants’ Services – Mitchell McInnes
‘Unjust Enrichment (Dis) Contented’ Redux: Fridman on Unjust Enrichment – John D. McCamus
Trusts and the Statute of Frauds – Robert Chambers
Part IV: Commercial Law: Sale of Goods and Agency
Eliminating Redundancy in Legislation Governing the Sale of Goods: A Threequel – Clayton Bangsund
Two Kinds of Agency – Rachel Leow