Does a municipality owe a duty of care to the users of its roads?
British Columbia, Canada
The following excerpt is from Plett (Guardian ad litem of) v Abbotsford (City), 2017 BCSC 1298 (CanLII):
It is well-established that a municipality owes a duty of care to users of its roads: Just v. British Columbia, 1989 CanLII 16 (SCC), [1989] 2 S.C.R. 1228 at 1236; Van Tent v. Abbotsford (City), 2013 BCCA 236 at para. 42.
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