What is the duty of care provided by the Health and Social Care Act?

British Columbia, Canada


The following excerpt is from Ferguson v. Brown, 2015 BCSC 1638 (CanLII):

I take these provisions into account as informing the requisite duty of care (Ryan v. Victoria, 1999 CanLII 706 (SCC), [1999] 1 S.C.R. 201 at para. 29).

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