What is the duty of the province and its independent contractors to perform highway maintenance work with reasonable care?
British Columbia, Canada
The following excerpt is from Bradshaw v. Rankel, 1999 CanLII 2138 (BC SC):
I am satisfied that the defendants owed a duty of care to the plaintiff. The Province and its independent contractors have a duty to perform highway maintenance work with reasonable care: Just v. British Columbia (1989), 1989 CanLII 16 (SCC), 64 D.L.R. (4th) 689 (S.C.C.); Lewis v. British Columbia, 1997 CanLII 304 (SCC), [1997] 3 S.C.R. 1145 (S.C.C.).
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