Canadian Tort Law – Cases, Notes & Materials, 17th 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.

Lewis N. Klar, K.C., B.A., B.C.L., LL.M., is a Professor Emeritus at the University of Alberta, Faculty of Law. He was the Dean of Law from 1997 to 2002 and was with the Faculty of Law from 1973 until his retirement in 2014. He was admitted to the Bar of the Province of Québec in 1971 and the Law Society of Alberta in 2000. He was awarded a Queen's Counsel in 2002, and received the Distinguished Service Award for his contribution to legal scholarship from the Law Society of Alberta and the Canadian Bar Association (Alberta) in 2005. In 2007, Professor Klar received the University of Alberta's J. Gordin Kaplan Award for Excellence in Research, the university's most senior and prestigious research award. In 2009, Professor Klar received the Hon. Tevie H. Miller Teaching Excellence Award, the Faculty of Law's annual teaching award. Professor Klar received the prestigious John G. Fleming Award in Torts from U.C. Berkeley Law School in 2016. Professor Klar is an elected member of the American Law Institute. He served as a member of the Alberta Auto Insurance Rate Board from 2005 to 2013. His major publication is Klar, Tort Law (2017), which is currently in its sixth edition. He has published numerous articles on the law of torts and has presented his work at conferences in Canada, the United States, Scotland, Japan and Australia. He has taught at a large number of continuing legal education programs for both lawyers and judges, and has been a consultant on a number of important cases both in Canada and the United States. His works have been cited by the Supreme Court of Canada and the courts in every province in Canada, as well as by courts overseas. In recognition of Professor Klar's contributions to tort law, a Special Edition of the Alberta Law Review was published in 2016 in his honour.

Bruce Feldthusen, B.A., LL.B., LL.M., S.J.D., recently retired as a professor of law at the University of Ottawa. He has been teaching and writing about tort law for almost 50 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. Feldthusen’s analysis of pure economic loss has often been adopted by the Supreme Court of Canada and provided the original 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 worked frequently as a litigation consultant on issues in tort law prior to his retirement.